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Principles Of Pragmatics
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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
Principles Of Pragmatics written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.
The Pragmatics Of Politeness
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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Pragmatics Of Politeness written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
Principles Of Pragmatics
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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Principles Of Pragmatics written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES categories.
This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.
Explorations In Semantics And Pragmatics
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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Explorations In Semantics And Pragmatics written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natures in the study of meaning, have distinct goals, which can be defined more clearly and pursued more effectively to the extent that both their distinctness and their interdependence are recognized.
Pragmatics
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Author : Stephen C. Levinson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-06-09
Pragmatics written by Stephen C. Levinson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-06-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An integrative and lucid analysis of central topics in the field of linguistic pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speed acts, and conversational structure.
Teaching Learning And Investigating Pragmatics
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Author : Sara Gesuato
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Teaching Learning And Investigating Pragmatics written by Sara Gesuato and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume presents a collection of research papers investigating how to foster the learning and teaching of pragmatic phenomena, as well as how to administer tests that assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education with regards to several target languages. The topics investigated include: speech acts; computer-mediated communication; conversation analysis; pragmatic, intercultural, and emotional competence; native and non-native performance; data collection and instructional methods; needs analysis; and syllabus design and materials development. The contributions will be of particular interest to linguists, language learners and teachers, teacher trainers, and communication experts.
Relevance Pragmatics And Interpretation
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Author : Kate Scott
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-18
Relevance Pragmatics And Interpretation written by Kate Scott and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.
Principles Of Pragmatics
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Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Principles Of Pragmatics written by Geoffrey N. Leech and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
Possibilities And Limitations Of Pragmatics
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Author : Herman Parret
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Possibilities And Limitations Of Pragmatics written by Herman Parret and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united by the possibilities and limitations generic to the field of pragmatics.
Language In Literature
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Author : Geoffrey Leech
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Language In Literature written by Geoffrey Leech and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the ‘mystery’ of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of ‘foregrounding’ (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the ‘flight from the text’ that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.