Overview

"""The Handbook of Pragmatics"" provides easy access - for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language - to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly conceived as ""the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication"".The Handbook of Pragmatics is an annually updated state-of-the-art publication."

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Author:   Jef Verschueren ,  Jan-Ola Östman ,  Jan Blommaert ,  Chris Bulcaen
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.450kg
ISBN:  

9789027225757

ISBN 10:   9027225753
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   16 October 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Loose-leaf
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Mikhail Bakhtin (by Bjorklund, Martina); 2. Causality (by Vandepitte, Sonia); 3. Michel Foucault (by Martin Rojo, Luisa); 3. Borrowing (by Treffers-Daller, Jeanine); 4. Frame analysis (by Telles Ribeiro, Branca); 5. H.P. Grice (by Brisard, Frank); 6. Implicature and language change (by Kearns, Kate); 7. Indeterminacy and negotiation (by Zanotto, Mara Sophia); 8. Intentionality (by Nuyts, Jan); 9. Metalinguistic awareness (by Mertz, Elizabeth); 10. Charles Morris (by Petrilli, Susan); 11. Prosody (by Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth); 12. Ferdinand de Saussure (by Harris, Roy)

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This is again an excellent collection of papers presenting high-quality sketches of central topics in the study of pragmatics and therefore is an ideal reference book, anyone doing language in general and pragmatics in particular should not miss! -- Chaoqun Xie, Fujian Teachers' College, on Linguist List 14.1179 (April 2003)

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