Doing Pragmatics, 2Ed by Peter Grundy

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Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between language and context, this book introduces the major areas of linguistic pragmatics: deixis, speech acts, Grice's theory of conversational implicature, Relevance Theory and presupposition. It also looks at areas such as: speech events, politeness phenomena, conversation and metapragmatics.

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Doing Pragmatics, 2Ed by Peter Grundy

Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between language and context, this book introduces the major areas of linguistic pragmatics: deixis, speech acts, Grice's theory of conversational implicature, Relevance Theory and presupposition. It also looks at areas such as: speech events, politeness phenomena, conversation and metapragmatics.
The second edition of Doing Pragmatics presents itself as a remarkably comprehensive book and a valuable resource for beginners in the study of pragmatics
Language 79/1

In 'Doing Pragmatics' Grundy manages to come up with a fresh, strongly pedagogically orientated textbook which provides a step by step tour of the main topics of concern to pragmaticists alongside a detailed and carefully designed working plan for beginning students
Pragmatics and Cognition
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ISBN 13 9780340758922
ISBN 10 0340758929
Title Doing Pragmatics, 2Ed
Author Peter Grundy
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2000-05-26
Number of pages 304
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