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.-
Discourse Analysis
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Child Language
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Dialectology
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Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English
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Historical Linguistics
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English Word-Formation
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English Phonology
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Phonology
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Sociolinguistics
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Linguistic Anthropology
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Logic in Linguistics
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Lexical Semantics
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Grammatical Roles and Relations
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Introduction to the Grammar of English
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Transformational Grammar
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Psycholinguistics
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Conversation Analysis
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Lexical Meaning
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Corpus Linguistics
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Word-Formation in English
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Semantic Theory
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Morphology
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Writing Systems
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Relevance Theory
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The Physics of Speech
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Comparing Syntax
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Sign Language Linguistics
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Mood and Modality
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Understanding Minimalism
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Continuing Syntax
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An Introduction to Word Grammar
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Beginning Syntax
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Cognitive Linguistics
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Foundations of French Syntax
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Intonation
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Figurative Language
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Optimality Theory
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Statistics in Language Studies
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First and Second Language Acquisition
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The Phonological Structure of Words
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Principles of Phonetics
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Binding Theory
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Language Contact
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521294140 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521294142 |
| Title | Pragmatics |
| Author | Stephen C Levinson |
| Series | Cambridge Textbooks In Linguistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1983-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 438 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |