Pragmatics

Zusatztext 'Jean Stilwell Peccei does an excellent job of introducing the fundamental concepts in a practical and user-friendly manner.' - Aidan Coveney! Modern Language Review Informationen zum Autor Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting lecturer at the Roehampton Institute London Klappentext In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics:encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentencesprovides a basic understanding of key pragmatic conceptsintroduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theoryencourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversationsprovides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading. Zusammenfassung In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is pragmatics  2. Entailment  3. Presupposition  4. The co-operative principle and implicature  5. More on implicatures  6. Speech acts  7. More about speech acts  8. Politeness  9. Making sense  10. Exploring pragmatics: projects

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• Autori: Jean Stilwell Peccei, Jean Stilwell (Formerly At Roehampton Univ Peccei, Peccei Jean Stilwell
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.1999
• EAN: 9780415205238
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20523-8
• Pagine: 106
• Serie: Language Workbooks
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc