Mira Ariel

Pragmatics and Grammar (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511421099
• Artikelnr.: 38204227

Autorenporträt

Mira Ariel is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: grammar, pragmatics and what's between them; Part I.
Drawing the Grammar/Pragmatics Divide: 2. Distinguishing the grammatical
and the extragrammatical: referential expressions; 3. Distinguishing codes,
explicated, implicated and truth-compatible inferences; Part II. Crossing
the Extralinguistic-Linguistic Divide: 4. Grammar, pragmatics and
arbitrariness; 5. All paths lead to the salient discourse pattern; 6. The
rise (and potential fall) of reflexive pronouns; Part III. Bringing Grammar
and Pragmatics Back Together: 7. Grammar/pragmatics interfaces.

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1. Introduction: grammar, pragmatics and what's between them; Part I. Drawing the Grammar/Pragmatics Divide: 2. Distinguishing the grammatical and the extragrammatical: referential expressions; 3. Distinguishing codes, explicated, implicated and truth-compatible inferences; Part II. Crossing the Extralinguistic-Linguistic Divide: 4. Grammar, pragmatics and arbitrariness; 5. All paths lead to the salient discourse pattern; 6. The rise (and potential fall) of reflexive pronouns; Part III. Bringing Grammar and Pragmatics Back Together: 7. Grammar/pragmatics interfaces.