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Lee Yan Fong Library
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Lee Yan Fong Library |
P99.4 P72 G78 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | 00016556 |
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.