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.
| ISBN: | 9780631158677 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 1992 |
| Author: | Diane Blakemore |
| Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics |
| Genres: |
Linguistics |
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.
Understanding Utterances features in the following genres: Linguistics
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