Defining pragmatics

"Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific top...

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Glavni autor: Ariel, Mira (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Nakladnička cjelina: Research surveys in linguistics.
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  • 1. What's under the big-tent pragmatics?
  • 2. Surveying multiple-criterion definitions for pragmatics
  • 3. Problematizing the criteria
  • 4. Grammar as code, pragmatics as inference
  • 5. Inferential pragmatic theories
  • 6. The canon
  • 7. Functional syntax
  • 8. Beyond pragmatics
  • 9. Many questions, some resolutions.