ISBN:
9781137393913
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the English Language Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
English language-Grammar, Historical
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Electronic books
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Lehrbuch
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Lehrbuch
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Meanings in context -- 1.2.1 Beyond the linguistic code -- The assignment of sense -- The assignment of structural meaning -- The assignment of reference -- The assignment of utterance meaning -- 1.2.2 The scope of pragmatics -- The narrow view: syntax, semantics and pragmatics -- The broad view: pragmatic functions -- 1.3 The pragmatics of English -- 1.4 This book -- 2 Referential Pragmatics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definite expressions -- 2.3 Deixis -- 2.4 Anaphora -- 2.5 Using and understanding referring expressions in interaction -- 2.5.1 Referring expressions and context -- 2.5.2 Referring expressions and accessibility -- 2.5.3 Referring expressions and common ground -- 2.5.4 Referring expressions in interaction -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Informational Pragmatics -- 3.1 Informational pragmatics -- 3.2 Informational ground: background and foreground -- 3.3 Informational background -- 3.3.1 Background assumptions -- 3.3.2 Presuppositions -- 3.4 Informational foreground -- 3.4.1 Foregrounding -- 3.4.2 Focus -- Focus and prosodic prominence -- Focus and syntactic structures -- Focus as contrastive or additive -- Focus formulae -- 3.5 Informational pragmatics: an interactional perspective -- 3.5.1 Presuppositions and backgrounding -- 3.5.2 Common grounding -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Pragmatic Meaning I -- 4.1 Meaning beyond what is said -- 4.2 What is said versus what is implicated -- 4.2.1 Grice on speaker meaning -- 4.2.2 Implicated meaning -- Conventional implicatures -- Conversational implicatures -- Generalised versus particularised conversational implicatures -- Conversational implicatures as meant or communicated? -- 4.3 Between what is said and what is implicated.
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