Introduction To Pragmatics Av Betty J. (Northern Illinois University Usa) Birner

<i>Introduction to Pragmatics</i> guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. <ul><li>Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics</li><li>Addresses the traditional range of topics ¿ such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts ¿ as well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories, Relevance</li><li>Theory, information structure, inference, and dynamic approaches to meaning</li><li>Explores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and pragmatics</li><li>Ideal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time</li></ul>