Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the
received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently
defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the
prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held
assumption that specific topics - implicatures, deixis, speech
acts, politeness - naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics
turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of
conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences,
rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between
codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and
even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly,
although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out
grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book
include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from
pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind
pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?
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