PragmaticsOUP 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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addressee adverbs of space analysis anaphoric expression Anderson and Keenan antecedent Australian aboriginal languages Bach c-command Cambridge cancelled Carston Chapter Chinese Chomsky Chomsky's binding conditions clause cognitive communication concept context contrast conversational implicature conversationally implicated coreferential interpretation deictic adverbs deictic centre deictic expressions deixis demonstratives Diessel discourse discussion distinction Dyirbal encoded English entailment example explicature Fillmore Fodorian free enrichment grammar Grice Guugu Yimidhirr Horn Huang I-principle illocutionary illocutionary act illocutionary force Implicated premise indirect speech act inferential interface John lexical items linguistic linguistic expression logical form logophoricity marked Mary maxims meaning Metalinguistic negation neo-Gricean pragmatic theory non-deictic notion Occam's razor performative plural politeness pragmatic inference pragmatic intrusion pragmatically enriched predicate presupposition principle of relevance pronominals Q-scalar implicature r-expression Recanati reference reflexive relevance theory relevance-theoretic revised neo-Gricean pragmatic Section semantic semantics and pragmatics social deixis speaker Sperber and Wilson syntactic syntax types underdeterminacy University verbs versus