Mira Ariel

Defining Pragmatics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics and the assumption that specific topics belong on the pragmatics turf.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521517836
• ISBN-10: 0521517834
• Artikelnr.: 30881533

Autorenporträt

Mira Ariel is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her recent publications include Pragmatics and Grammar (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What's under the big-tent pragmatics?
Part I. Deconstructing Pragmatics: 2. Surveying multiple-criterion definitions for pragmatics
3. Problematizing the criteria
Part II. Reconstituting Pragmatics: 4. Grammar as code, pragmatics as inference
5. Inferential pragmatic theories
Part III. Mapping the Big Tent: 6. The canon
7. Functional syntax
8. Beyond pragmatics
9. Many questions, some resolutions.