Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics

(Part of the Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics Series)

By Diane Blakemore

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This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0631158677

ISBN13:9780631158677

Release Date:July 1992

Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell

Length:204 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Education & Reference Foreign Language Study & Reference Language Arts Linguistics Semantics Words, Language & Grammar

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