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Pragmatics - A Slim Guide (Paperback)
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Pragmatics - A Slim Guide (Paperback)
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This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to
the study of meaning in context. There can be a big difference
between what a speaker says and what they mean - i.e. between
literal meaning and intended meaning. A speaker who says I need
coffee can mean anything from 'Please buy more coffee' to 'I'm
really sleepy'. How is a hearer to know? In this book, Betty Birner
explores how we get from what is said to what is meant, from the
perspective of both the speaker and the hearer, dealing with a
range of context-dependent issues in language along the way:
literal and non-literal meaning, implicature, speech acts,
reference, definiteness, presupposition, and information structure.
She reveals how language users can infer each other's meanings
using not just what is being said but also the context and an
assumption of rationality and cooperation. This slim guide
summarizes the most important and foundational theories in the
field of linguistic pragmatics, illustrated with plenty of
real-life examples, and including a helpful glossary of key terms.
Written in a lively and accessible style, the book will appeal to a
wide range of readers, from undergraduate and graduate students of
pragmatics to general readers interested in how we successfully
communicate with one another.
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