Pragmatics by Stephen C Levinson

Pragmatics by Stephen C Levinson

Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve some of the problems semantics have been confronting and simplifying semantic analyses. The exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification. The detailed analyses of selected topics give the student a clear view of the empirical rigour demanded by the study of linguistic pragmatics, but Dr Levinson never loses sight of the rich diversity of the subject. An introduction and conclusion relate pragmatics to other fields in linguistics and other disciplines concerned with language usage - psychology, philosophy, anthropology and literature.

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ISBN 13	9780521294140
ISBN 10	0521294142
Title	Pragmatics
Author	Stephen C Levinson
Series	Cambridge Textbooks In Linguistics
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1983-06-09
Number of pages	438
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