内容简介
In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics.
Pragmatics:
encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences;
pro vides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts such as sentence and utterance, ent ai lment, presupposition, implicature and direct and indirect speech acts;
introduces two highly in fluent ial approaches to pragmatics: the co-operative principle and speech act theory;
encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, e.g. advertising language, children's conversations;
provides a range of activities, discussion questions, sample answers and further reading.
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