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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Understanding Pragmatics
Written By: Jef Verschueren
Description:

This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to pragmatics. Presupposing no background in pragmatics, the author sketches out the theoretical basis of the subject and systematically develops the major theoretical perspectives, to provide a full description of pragmatics as a coherent field of inquiry. The text explores methodological issues, guiding the reader into the existing spectrum of pragmatics-related work. Focusing on pragmatics in its broadest sense, the book covers the whole range of social, cultural and cognitive aspects of pragmatics.

This title is distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press. www.oup.com/us

Publication Year: 1998
Publisher: Hodder Education
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 0340646241
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: 312
Prices: U.S. $ 70.00
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