George Yule. Pragmatics

Oxford University Press, 2007. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-929741-2 This work focuses on the relatively neglected grammar of names, thus crucially on their morphology and syntax. These areas have not aroused the kind of interest and controversy associated with (the status of) the semantics of names. The study of names made here, however, assumes that grammar is notional, or ontologically based. Thus we shall explore the association between the structu...

Paperback: 560 pages. Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (January 7, 1999) Language: English. Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. This translation of the highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 A-Z entries, this...

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition). Author: Rene Dirven, Marjolijn Verspoor. Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Publication date: May 2004. Language: English. ISBN: 978-1588114853. Number of pages: 274. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of...

Глава из Kuiper K. (ed.) Yearbook of Phraseology. Berlin, New York (DE GRUYTER MOUTON), 2010 (2010). - Pages 73–96 Abstract One of the questions in idiom research is the extent to which the image component of a figurative idiom fixed in its inner form reaches into its lexicalized meaning and consequently its pragmatics. This paper explores two hypotheses: that traces of the image component of idiom semantics can have an effect on the usage of...

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. - 239 p. How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological and fundamental levels of social organization individual, situational and socioc...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to pragmatics and discourse. It covers the core areas of the subject - context, co-context, speech acts, conversation structure, the cooperative principle and politeness. The book provides classic reading from the key names in the discipline, from Sperber and Wilson to Fairclough. This is an ideal book for anyone begiining to study pragmatics and discourse. Contents. A. Introduction: concepts in pragmatic...

Pages: 260 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.) Quality: good: pdf Topics are structured in four parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, s...

Cambridge University Press, 1999 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 380 pages This textbook investigates definiteness both from a comparative and a theoretical point of view, showing how languages express definiteness and what definiteness is. It surveys a large number of languages to discover the range of variation in relation to definiteness and related grammatical phenomena, such as demonstratives, possessives and personal pronouns. It outlin...

Pages: 424 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.) Quality: good: pdf Most people have to communicate with colleagues every day and persuade them to understand their opinions or to accept their views. This handbook is intended for anyone who is interested in such goal-oriented language. It extracts 300 persuasive tactics from research findings in communication, linguistics, pragmatics and relate...

Четыре главы книги по лингвистике - 177 стр. на английском языке Chapter 1 - language, dialect, accent, variety and standard English A brief history of the standardisation of English in England A brief history of the standardisation of English in the USA Linguistic variation Social variation etc. Chapter 2 - Pragmatics and Discourse Language, meaning and communication Language in context Language as action Speech Act Theory The co-operative prin...