LINGUIST List 13.1436

Wed May 22 2002

Books: Pragmatics: An Introduction, J.Mey

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1. tmac, Pragmatics: An Introduction - 2nd Edition by Jacob Mey

Title:Pragmatics: An Introduction
Subtitle: 2nd Edition

Publication Year: 2001
			
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers 
 http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
			
Book URL: http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/book.asp?ref=0631211314
			
 
Author: Jacob Mey 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0631211314, Pages: 416, Price: 68.95
Comment: * 30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
Paperback: ISBN: 0631211322, Pages: 416, Price: 31.95
Comment: * 30% off with a subscription to Blackwell's LL+
			
Abstract:

This is a succinct introduction to the rapidly developing field of
pragmatics - the study of language from the point of view of its
users, of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in
using language in social interaction, and the effects their use of
language has on other participants in communication.


The book reviews the work of Austin, Grice, Searle, Levinson and
others and examines the implicit meaning of everyday conversation, as
well as the social importance and determination of our individually
performed 'pragmatic acts'.

In this updated and thoroughly revised edition, Mey extends the
treatment of metapragmatic phenomena to what is often referred to, in
the US anthropological-pragmatic tradition, by the term 'indexing'. He
has also given full-fledged treatment to his theory of Pragmatic Acts
(including 'embodiment'), and has included new chapters on literary
pragmatics and pragmatics across cultures. The final chapter on social
aspects of pragmatics covers extensive recent research in what has
come to be named the 'critical' orientation of the discipline.

Lingfield(s): Pragmatics
			 
Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG)
 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)