
Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction...

"Pragmatics is the linguistic study of the ways in which contexts contribute meaning to language usage. For those students who wonder why Yeah, right' really means No', linguistic pragmatics offers fascinating methods for investigating why the study of the parts of our speech...

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction...