Pragmatics

Description

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics:

• encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences
• provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts
• introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory
• encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations
• provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.

Contents

1. What is pragmatics 2. Entailment 3. Presupposition 4. The co-operative principle and implicature 5. More on implicatures 6. Speech acts 7. More about speech acts 8. Politeness 9. Making sense 10. Exploring pragmatics: projects

Author Bio

Jean Stilwell Peccei is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting lecturer at the Roehampton Institute London

Related Subjects

1. Introductory Linguistics
2. Pragmatics
3. English Language