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Principles of Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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Principles of Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Series: Longman Linguistics Library
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Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of
utterances to their situations - has become a more and more
important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely
formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become
more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics:
that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of
communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative
behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a
rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of
rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of
linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the
abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be
studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.
There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and
rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and
pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a
model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language.
In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle,
and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the
same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic
communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.
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