Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics

By J.L. Mey

Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Second Edition (COPE) is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the discipline of pragmatics, an important branch of natural language study dealing with the study of language in it's entire user-related theoretical and practical complexity.

As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As pragmatics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics, it will therefore be relevant not just for meaning specialists, but for most linguistic audiences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080962971
• ISBN13: 9780080962979
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 1180 Pages
• Weight: 7.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.4" x 11.3"