Discourse and Context in Language Teaching: A Guide for Language Teachers more books like this

by Marianne Celce-Murcia, Elite Olshtain

Discourse and Context in Language Teaching: A Guide for Language Teachers is part of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language for Language Teachers series. The paperback edition recommends that language teachers incorporate an awareness of discourse and pragmatics in their teaching if they truly wish to implement a communicative approach in their ...

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics more books like this

by Anna Wierzbicka

The book discusses data from a wide range of languages and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be clearly and intelligibly described and compared by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human ...

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Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century more books like this

by Robert E Horn

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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk more books like this

by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Editor), Beverly S Hartford (Editor)

This edited volume brings conversational analysis into the study of second language pragmatics as an analytic paradigm. A well-regarded team of researchers addresses a difficult area for the interlanguage pragmatics research community - the balance between experimental method and the use of conversational data. Institutional talk provides ...

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Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students more books like this

by Joan Cutting

"Pragmatics and Discourse, 2nd Edition" has been revised and reorganised to place more emphasis on pragmatics. It 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 and extends to more applied areas: ...

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Direct Reference: From Language to Thought more books like this

by Francois Recanati

This volume puts forward a distinct new theory of direct reference, blending insights from both the Fregean and the Russellian traditions, and fitting the general theory of language understanding used by those working on the pragmatics of natural language. It is the ideal introduction to the subject of direct reference for advanced undergraduates ...

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Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface more books like this

by Robert D Van Valin, Jr.

Language is a system of communication in which grammatical structures function to express meaning in context. While all languages can achieve the same basic communicative ends, they each use different means to achieve them, particularly in the divergent ways that syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact across languages. This book looks in detail ...

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Sociolinguistica y Pragmatica del Espanol more books like this

by Carmen Silva-Corvalan

This book provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. Drawing on the research of foremost scholars in the field, Carmen Silva-Corvalan covers central concerns of variational sociolinguistcs, discourse analyses, language change, and language contact, with special reference to Spanish in the United ...

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Understanding Pragmatics more books like this

by Jef Verschueren

What do people do when using language? How exactly is meaning generated when we communicate? And why do we say one thing when we usually mean another? Examining the mental and social processes involved in communication through language, Understanding Pragmatics is a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This book provides an outline of the ...

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Handbook of Pragmatics more books like this

by Laurence R Horn, Gregory L Ward

"The Handbook of Pragmatics" is a collection of original articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. The 32 articles, written by leading scholars, provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory ...

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Pragmatics and Discourse 2nd Edition: A Resource Book for Students more books like this

by Joan Cutting

"Pragmatics and Discourse, 2nd Edition" has been revised and reorganised to place more emphasis on pragmatics and 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 and extends to more applied areas: ...

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Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective more books like this

by Louise Cummings

The first truly multidisciplinary text of its kind, this book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics. Cummings argues that no study of pragmatics can reasonably neglect the historical and contemporary influences on this discipline of neighboring fields of inquiry, particularly philosophy, psychology, artificial ...

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Doing Pragmatics more books like this

by Peter Grundy

The first edition of "Doing Pragmatics" was written for pragmatics courses both at introductory and more advanced level, and had the advantage at the time of including a substantial practical element where other texts were only expounding dry theory. In this new edition, Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version. The book is ...

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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning more books like this

by David I Beaver, Brady Z Clark

"Sense and Sensitivity" advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three ...

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Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying more books like this

by James Clifford

This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the success of efforts to incorporate more 'real world' ...

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Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alientation, & the Evolution of Language more books like this

by John Haiman

Putting aside questions of truth and falsehood, the old 'talk is cheap' maxim carries as much weight as ever. Indeed, perhaps more. For one need not be an expert in irony or sarcasm to realize that people don't necessarily mean what they say. Phrases such as 'Yeah, right' and 'I could care less' are so much a part of the way we speak - and the way ...

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From Words to Discourse: Trends in Spanish Semantics and Pragmatics more books like this

by Javier Gutierrez-Rexach (Editor)

An area of linguistic research can be considered mature when the validity of theoretical and empirical results is tested cross-linguistically and when predictions from different languages influence and modify the course of theoretical development. The semantics/pragmatics interface poses a special challenge in this respect because of its ...

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Talking to Adults: The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition more books like this

by Shoshana Blum-Kulka (Editor), Catherine E Snow, PhD (Editor)

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic learning occurs and re-examines certain assumptions ...

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Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition more books like this

by Arie Verhagen

Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view than with describing the world. Treating pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel and integrating insights from linguistics, psychology, and studies in animal ...

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Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics more books like this

by Professor Alan Cruse

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. It covers topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics, as well as semantic matters. The author seeks, above all, to display and to explain the richness and subtlety of meaning, and to that end provides abundant exemplification throughout ...

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Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics more books like this

by Diane Blakemore

This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.

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Pragmatics and Grammar more books like this

by Mira Ariel

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 ...

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What Counts: Focus and Quantification more books like this

by Elena Herburger

In "What Counts", Elena Herburger considers the effects of focus on interpretation. She investigates how focus affects the pragmatics and truth conditions of a sentence by rearranging its quantificational structure. Adopting a neo-Davidsonian stance, Herburger claims that various pragmatic and truth-conditional effects of focus sustain a uniform ...

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Pragmatics more books like this

by Yan Huang

This introduction to pragmatics - the study of language in use - provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of its central topics and a guide to the latest research. It opens with a discussion of the scope, meaning, and history of pragmatics from Aristotle to the present. It shows how the subject relates to the study of semantics, syntax, ...

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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage more books like this

by Penelope Brown

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay ...

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