Pragmatics by Jean Stilwell Peccei

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 sentencesprovides a basic understanding of key pragmatic conceptsintroduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theoryencourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversationsprovides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.
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