The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

ISBN 10: 1575864584 / ISBN 13: 9781575864587

Published by Center for the Study of Language, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575864584
• ISBN 13: 9781575864587
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The contributors to this volume tend to agree on one thing: semantic theory cannot retain its traditional purity, free of pragmatic contextual considerations. This claim provides the setting for various provocative approaches to a precise definition of pragmatics and its reconciliation with semantics—a collection of leading-edge work examining the semantics/pragmatics dispute in terms of a broad range of phenomena, showing how these issues reach from linguistics into a number of other fields, and examining the role of pragmatics in different forms of cross-cultural communication.