Principles of Pragmatics by Geoffrey N Leech
Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.Professor Leech is Lancaster University's Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics. In the fields of linguistics and English language, he has written, co-edited, and co-authored over 25 books and over 100 articles, specializing in stylistics, English grammar, semantics, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics. He co-authored the mammoth and authoritative A Complete Grammar of the English Language (Longman 1985) with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, and Jan Svartvik. His Elements of Pragmatics (Longman 1983) was a seminal work in pragmatics as well. He is a member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582551107 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582551102 |
| Title | Principles of Pragmatics |
| Author | Geoffrey N Leech |
| Series | Longman Linguistics Library |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1983-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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