Principles of Pragmatics

by Geoffrey N. Leech

Book Overview

Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582551102
• ISBN13: 9780582551107
• Release Date: July 1983
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"