Kate Scott

Pragmatics in English

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Pragmatics - the study of language in context - is a key topic within English language and linguistics. This book introduces the core topics in the field, taking readers from basic principles to an understanding of key theories and approaches, including speech acts, Grice, politeness, relevance theory, metaphor, and irony"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836005
• ISBN-10: 1108836003
• Artikelnr.: 64534817

Autorenporträt

Kate Scott is a Senior Lecturer and School Director of Research at Kingston University London, and has over ten years' experience of teaching English language, linguistics, and pragmatics at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is the author of Pragmatics Online (2022) and Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style (2019), and co-editor of Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation (2019, with Carston and Clark).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What is pragmatics?
2. Speaker's meaning
3. Speech act theory
4. Gricean pragmatics
5. Pragmatics beyond grice
6. Relevance-theoretic pragmatics
7. Applying relevance theory
8. Figurative language
9. Politeness
10. Researching pragmatics
Glossary
References
Index.