Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

by Louise Cummings

Book Overview

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 intelligence, and language pathology. By the same token, these fields can begin to address their own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805855432
• ISBN13: 9780805855432
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"