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. Ed(S): Capone, Alessandro; Lo Piparo, Franco; Carapezza, Marco - Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics - 9783319376899 - V9783319376899
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Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics

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Description for Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics Paperback. This book explores the relationship between semantics and pragmatics. It introduces relevance theory as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize themselves with technical details and linguistic terminology. Editor(s): Capone, Alessandro; Lo Piparo, Franco; Carapezza, Marco. Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology. Num Pages: 565 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFGA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 860.

This volume provides insight into linguistic pragmatics from the perspective of linguists who have been influenced by philosophy. Theory of Mind and perspectives on point of view are presented along with other topics including: semantics vs. semiotics,  clinical pragmatics, explicatures, cancellability of explicatures, interactive language use,  reference, common ground, presupposition, definiteness, logophoricity and point of view in connection with pragmatic inference, pragmemes and language games, pragmatics and artificial languages, the mechanism of the form/content correlation from a pragmatic point of view,  amongst other issues relating to language use. Relevance Theory is introduced as an important framework, allowing readers to familiarize ... Read more

This book follows on from the first volume: both contain the work of world renowned experts who discuss theories relevant to pragmatics. Here, the relationship between semantics and pragmatics is explored: conversational explicatures are a way to bridge the gap in semantics between underdetermined logical forms and full propositional content. 

These volumes are written in an accessible way and work well both as a stimulus to further research and as a guide to less experienced researchers and students who would like to know more about this vast, complex, and difficult field of inquiry.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
565
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
Number of Pages
543
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319376899
SKU
V9783319376899
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Reviews for Perspectives on Linguistic Pragmatics
From the book reviews: “Perspectives on linguistic pragmatics, comprises 20 chapters and covers a range of topics that pertain to linguistic pragmatics. … this volume enjoys a number of merits that make it a unique text suitable not only for professionals (e.g., pragmaticists, semanticists, linguists, anthropologists, literary theorists, and philosophers of language) but also for anyone who is interested ... Read more

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