Pragmatics

by Yan Huang

Book Overview

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577765
• ISBN13: 9780199577767
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"