Date: 10-Jul-2008 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Pragmatics and Grammar: Ariel E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Pragmatics and Grammar
Published: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Author: Mira Ariel
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521559942 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521559942 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 45.00
Abstract:
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.
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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