Pragmatics

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OUP Oxford, 2007 - 346 pages
Pragmatics is one of the rapidly growing fields in contemporary linguistics. Huang provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the central topics in pragmatics - implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and deixis.

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Exercises and essay questions
18
Presupposition
64
Speech acts
93
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Yan Huang is Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Reading. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, and has taught linguistics at both universities. His published work includes The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP,1994) and Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP, 2000).

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