Doing Pragmatics - Softcover

Grundy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340971606 ISBN 13: 9780340971604

Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterised the previous editions, the third edition is fully revised and expanded. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real data and examples. New chapters include pragmatic inference and language evolution, and intercultural pragmatics. Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to 'do' pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those studying linguistics and ELT.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Grundy is a Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University and a former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Durham.

Review:

"I not only see no harm in Grundy's book but a number of virtues - virtues that have allowed us to begin to do more things with ("less defined") pragmatics."--Pragmatics and Cognition

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340971606
• ISBN 13: 9780340971604
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 326