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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 semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions. The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages, and shows how pragmatics ... Read more
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 semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions. The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages, and shows how pragmatics ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
Condition
New
Weight
824g
Number of Pages
492
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199577767
SKU
V9780199577767
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Yan Huang
Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and has previously taught at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, and Oxford. His published work includes The Syntax of Anaphora (CUP 1994), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000), and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (OUP 2012).
Reviews for Pragmatics
[T]he book is very thorough in its coverage of topics within the field. Mindful of its student audience, it also has extensive study questions, examples, and glossaries. My overall impression is that it is a valuable textbook to anyone in the field of pragmatics
The Linguist List
This new publication by Professor Huang ... gives a very thorough ... Read more
The Linguist List
This new publication by Professor Huang ... gives a very thorough ... Read more