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Grundy, Peter.

Doing pragmatics / Peter Grundy. - 3rd ed. - London : Hodder Education, 2008. - ix, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index.

Using and understanding language -- Deixis - the relation of reference to the point of origin of the utterance -- Presupposition - accommodating background knowledge -- Speech acts - language as action -- Implicit meaning -- Relevance theory -- Metapragmatic awareness -- Pragmatic inference and language evolution -- Politeness phenomena -- Empirical pragmatics, interactive pragmatics, talk-in-interaction -- Intercultural pragmatics -- Doing project work in pragmatics.

ISBN: 9780340971604 (pbk.) 0340971606 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2009291080

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pragmatics.
Pragmatiek.
Pragmatiek.
Pragmatik.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Lehrbuch.
Lehrbuch.

LC Class. No.: P99.4 P72 / G78 2008