Contents: What Is Pragmatics, and Why Do I Need to Know, Anyway? Indexicals and Anaphora: Contextually Identifiable Indeterminacies of Reference. Reference and Indeterminacy of Sense. Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning: Interpreting the Packaging of Propositional Content. Implicature. Pragmatics and Syntax. Conversational Interaction. Perspective.
Green, Georgia M.
"...a succinct and thorough review of the major issues in the study
of pragmatics...would serve well as the main text for an
introductory course or seminar on pragmatics....also useful for
second language teachers and researchers interested in this related
field who wish to have a good resource book."
—Modern Language Journal"...provides a strong foundation of work on
pragmatics that will give cognitive scientists a solid
understanding of the important basic problems of natural language
understanding that have previously been dealt with by philosophers
and linguists....filled with interesting phenomena that deserve
further psychological investigation."
—American Journal of Psychology"I heartily recommend P&NLU as a
well-written, concise introduction to modern linguistic pragmatics.
As an undergraduate textbook, it is ideal."
—LanguagePraise for the first edition:
"...certainly fills a need in a growing market of interdisciplinary
audiences needing a basic understanding of natural language
semantics and principles of information communication....may be
very effective in triggering their interest and motivating further
study in the field."
—Alice G.B. ter Meulen
Indiana University, Bloomington"I am happy to say that I liked it
much better than pragmatics texts I had used in the past, and that
my course was more successful overall than it had been before. The
students found it clearly written and (relatively) easy to
understand. The examples are especially clear. In general, then, it
is excellent, and I intend to use it for the same course this
coming year."
—Jeanette S. DeCarrico
Portland State University
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