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:   7
Weight:   0.905kg
ISBN:  

9789027226006

ISBN 10:   9027226008
Pages:   299
Publication Date:   26 May 2003
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. Cerebral representation of language (by Paradis, Michel); 2. Clinical pragmatics (by Perkins, Michael R.); 3. Computer-mediated communication (by Georgakopoulou, Alexandra); 4. Ellipsis (by Wilson, Peter); 5. Emergent grammar (by Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa); 6. Iconicity (by Tabakowska, Elzbieta); 7. Language change (by Hickey, Raymond); 8. Language contact (by Matras, Yaron); 9. Language dominance and minorization (by Patrick, Donna); 10. Language ideologies (by Kroskrity, Paul V.); 11. Perception and language (by Lindsay, Roger); 12. Predicates and predication (by Mackenzie, J. Lachlan); 13. Primate communication (by Tomasello, Michael)

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