Louise Cummings

Introducing Pragmatics

A Clinical Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

Drawing on authentic, real-life examples of pragmatic breakdown in children and adults who have developmental or acquired language disorders, Louise Cummings expertly guides readers to core insights and principles for understanding where context and meaning in human communication meet. Key features include:
Chapter-opening learning objectives and chapter-closing summariesAuthentic illustrative cases of atypical pragmatic interactionExercises for checking knowledge and understandingAnnotated recommended further readingA detailed glossary of important terms in pragmatics and clinical linguistics
Aimed equally at undergraduate and graduate students who are coming to pragmatics for the first time, the text discusses the key issues and concepts of this field in a fascinating new way. With a common, easy-to-follow structure across chapters and a wealth of pedagogical resources, this is an essential text for students of linguistics and applied linguistics, communication studies, speech-language pathology, psychology and cognitive science, and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781032011806
• ISBN-10: 1032011807
• Artikelnr.: 67513913

Autorenporträt

Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She is author or editor of many books, including Pragmatic Disorders, Clinical Linguistics, Clinical Pragmatics, The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders, Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective and The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia. She is also Editor of the Routledge Research in Speech-Language Pathology book series.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Speech acts

1.1 Introduction

1.2 How to realise a speech act

1.3 A new approach to meaning

1.4 Happy and unhappy performatives

1.5 Explicit and implicit performatives

1.6 Saying and doing

1.7 Searle on speech acts

1.8 Indirect speech acts

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 2: Implicatures

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Grice and the cooperative principle

2.3 The cooperative principle and implicatures

2.4 Types of implicature

2.5 Properties of implicatures

2.6 Relevance theory

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 3: Presuppositions

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The economic rationale for presupposition

3.3 Presupposition triggers

3.4 Properties of presuppositions

3.5 Presuppositions in the real world

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 4: Deixis

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Person and social deixis

4.3 Place deixis

4.4 Time deixis

4.5 Discourse deixis

4.6 Anaphora

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 5: Figurative language

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Idioms

5.3 Metaphors

5.4 Irony

5.5 Hyperbole

5.6 Proverbs

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 6: Politeness

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Brown and Levinson on politeness

6.3 Politeness and face in clinical settings

6.4 Criticisms of Brown and Levinson

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 7: Topic management

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Topic management in clinical settings



7.2.1 Topic selection

7.2.2 Topic introduction

7.2.3 Topic development

7.2.4 Topic termination



7.3 Analysing topic management in conversation

7.4 Analysing topic management in narration

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Chapter 8: Clinical pragmatics

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The communication cycle

8.3 Cognition and the communication cycle

8.4 Theory of mind

8.5 Executive function

Suggestions for further reading

Questions

Answers

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Appendix

Rezensionen

Comprehensive, innovative, and easy-to-use, Introducing Pragmatics is an indispensable resource for scientists and students interested in how real-life pragmatic language failures shape our understanding of effective communication. Not only does the textbook contain a wealth of material on theory and experimental studies, but also wide-ranging topics from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Professor Elly Ifantidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Introducing Pragmatics: A Clinical Approach is an introductory popularization of pragmatics and clinical pragmatics, and its publication will undoubtedly help to further arouse the interest and attention of the linguistic community, especially of scholars in pragmatics, to devote their intellectual effort to pragmatic impairment. In addition, this book can steer linguists to enhance their interdisciplinary awareness and gain insights from cognitive science, speech pathology, clinical science, etc., and to seek interdisciplinary cooperation for better solutions to pragmatic disorders.

Jiegen Zhang, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (August 2024)