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Understanding Pragmatics

by Gunter Senft
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781444180305
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
  • Publisher Imprint: N/A
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 222
  • Original Price: GBP 46.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 340 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded. From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this book:

  • debates the core issues of pragmatics such as speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis, gesture, interaction strategies, ritual communication, phatic communion, linguistic relativity, ethnography of speaking, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, languages and social classes, and linguistic ideologies
  • incorporates examples from a broad variety of different languages and cultures
  • takes an innovative and transdisciplinary view of the field showing linguistic pragmatics has its predecessor in other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, ethology, ethnology, sociology and the political sciences.

Written by an experienced teacher and researcher, this introductory textbook is essential reading for all students studying pragmatics.

Gunter Senft is senior investigator at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and extraordinary professor of general linguistics at the University of Cologne. His main research interests include Austronesian and Papuan languages, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics, and semantics.

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