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Pragmatics and Grammar

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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. This textbook introduces students to a major topic
within current pragmatics research, and discusses prominent questions
addressed by scholars interested in grammar/pragmatics relations. Based
on natural linguistic examples, providing more persuasive data, it addresses
how we should tease grammar and pragmatics apart in controversial cases.

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Series Title

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Call Number

425 Ari p

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press., 2008

Collation

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-511-42295-9

Classification

425

Content Type

e-book

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Edition

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Subject(s)

english language
grammar

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Statement of Responsibility

Mira Ariel

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