Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics
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Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1992
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This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.
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- Title
- Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics
- Author
- Diane Blakemore
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication year
- 1992
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- Good
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0631158677
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- 9780631158677
This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.
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Diane Blakemore is Lecturer in Linguistics at Southampton University. Her book on Semantic Constraints on Relevance was published by Blackwell in 1987.
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