Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 330 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511777912
Series Statement:
Research surveys in linguistics
Content:
Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?
Content:
1. What's under the big-tent pragmatics? -- 2. Surveying multiple-criterion definitions for pragmatics -- 3. Problematizing the criteria -- 4. Grammar as code, pragmatics as inference -- 5. Inferential pragmatic theories -- 6. The canon -- 7. Functional syntax -- 8. Beyond pragmatics -- 9. Many questions, some resolutions
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521517836
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521732031
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521517836
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Pragmatik
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511777912
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