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Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II: Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains
I Witczak-Plisiecka
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Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, organized at the University of Lodz, Poland, in May 2008.Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut ... Read more
Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, organized at the University of Lodz, Poland, in May 2008.Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
405
Place of Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781443820639
SKU
V9781443820639
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About I Witczak-Plisiecka
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka is Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Pragmatics Association. Her research interests are primarily in the nature of meaning in natural language, theories of speech action and performativity, and the relation between language and the law. Her publications include Language, Law and Speech Acts: Pragmatic Meaning in ... Read more
Reviews for Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II: Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains
This volume is the second collection of papers in the series Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, carefully edited by Dr Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka (Vol 1: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010). The volume explores pragmatic phenomena such as power distribution and humour which appear in selected semantically and lexically restricted domains, i.e. political discourse, translation, ... Read more