Pragmatics Books

New and Published Books

1. Pragmatics

   An Advanced Resource Book for Students

   By Dawn Archer, Karin Aijmer, Anne Wichmann

   Series: Routledge Applied Linguistics

   Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Pragmatics Reader

   Edited by Dawn Archer, Peter Grundy

   The Pragmatics Reader is the indispensable set of readings for all students studying Pragmatics at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Combining key classic texts with newer extracts covering current developments in contemporary Pragmatics, each reading has been carefully selected to...

   Published March 1st 2011 by Routledge
3. Introducing Pragmatics in Use

   By Anne O'Keeffe, Brian Clancy, Svenja Adolphs

   Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics, which both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. Pragmatics is the study of language in context, yet most textbooks rely on invented language examples. This innovative textbook...

   Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader

   Edited by Zhu Hua

   Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language and Intercultural Communication. Reflecting the international nature of the field, this reader covers a wide range of language and cultural...

   Published January 27th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia

   Edited by Louise Cummings

   Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a range of theoretical and empirical concerns. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia captures the diversity of...

   Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Information Structure in Spoken Arabic

   Edited by Jonathan Owens, Alaa Elgibali

   Series: Routledge Arabic Linguistics Series

   This book explores speakers’ intentions, and the structural and pragmatic resources they employ, in spoken Arabic – which is different in many essential respects from literary Arabic. Based on new empirical findings from across the Arabic world this book elucidates the many ways in which context...

   Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge
7. Pragmatics and Discourse

   A Resource Book for Students, 2nd Edition

   By Joan Cutting

   Series: Routledge English Language Introductions

   Pragmatics and Discourse: has been revised and reorganized to place more emphasis on pragmatics covers the core areas of the subject: Context and Co-Text, Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Exchange Structure, Interactional Sociolinguistics, the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Theory...

   Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
8. Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

   System and Theory behind cai, jiu, dou and ye

   By Daniel Hole

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

   This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in...

   Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
9. Mencius On The Mind V 5

   Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge
10. Pragmatics

    By Jean Stilwell Peccei

    Series: Language Workbooks

    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...

    Published July 14th 1999 by Routledge