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Pragmatics

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In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics: encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.

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ISBN: 9781138834392
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Author: Jean Stilwell formerly at Roehampton University, UK Peccei
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 106 pages
Series: Language Workbooks
Genres: Literature: history and criticism
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Language: history and general works

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