This manual covers the comprehensive study of pragmatics, exploring its definition and scope within linguistics. It challenges conventional understandings of the field, proposing a new framework that distinguishes between grammar as a system of codes and pragmatics as a realm of rational inferences. The content delves into various phenomena traditionally associated with pragmatics, such as implicatures, deixis, speech acts, and politeness, re-evaluating their classification within this redefined structure.
The purpose of this manual is to provide a thorough academic resource for understanding the intricacies of pragmatics. It is intended for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the philosophical and linguistic underpinnings of language use. The text aims to clarify the boundaries between grammar and pragmatics, address the reasons for their apparent overlap, and investigate the nature of extragrammatical phenomena, offering a novel perspective on linguistic theory.
Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics - implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness - naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?
Author: Ariel, Mira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Defining Pragmatics
Pages: 00348 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2010-06-24
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521517836
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - Pragmatics
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - Semantics
Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics - implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness - naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?
Author: Ariel, Mira
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Defining Pragmatics
Pages: 00348 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2010-06-24
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521517836
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - Pragmatics
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - Semantics
