Understanding Utterances

An Introduction to Pragmatics

• Author(s): Diane Blakemore,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 204
• ISBN_10: 0631158677
  ISBN_13: 9780631158677
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics , Language Arts & Disciplines / General ,

Description:... 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.