Pragmatics and Grammar
Mira Ariel
When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.
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Anno:
2008
Edizione:
1
Casa editrice:
Cambridge University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
363
ISBN 10:
0511423977
ISBN 13:
9780521559942
Collana:
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
File:
PDF, 1.89 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008