Pragmatics (Language Workbooks)

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics: encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.

• • Author: Jean Stilwell Peccei
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 106 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138834394
• • ISBN-13: 9781138834392