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The discourse reader
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ISBN: 0415197341 0415197333 9780415197342 Year: 1999 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Women talk : conversation between women friends
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ISBN: 0631182527 0631182535 9780631182535 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

Pragmatics
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ISBN: 0521222354 0521294142 9780521222358 9780521294140 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve some of the problems semantics have been confronting and simplifying semantic analyses. The complexity of these issues is not disguised, but the exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification. The detailed analyses of selected topics give the student a clear view of the empirical rigour demanded by the study of linguistic pragmatics, but Dr Levinson never loses sight of the rich diversity of the subject. An introduction and conclusion relate pragmatics to other fields in linguistics and other disciplines concerned with language usage - psychology, philosophy, anthropology and literature. Many students in these disciplines, as well as students of linguistics, will find this a valuable textbook.

The sociolinguistics reader
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ISBN: 034069999X 0340652071 0340652063 0340691824 9780340691823 9780340652077 9780340652060 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Arnold


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Waarheid, taal en kunst.
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ISBN: 907096306X Year: 1984 Publisher: Ghent Communication and cognition


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Strategisch communiceren : interactiestrategieën in het taalverkeer.
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ISBN: 9062833322 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bussum Coutinho

Understanding pragmatics.
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ISBN: 0340646233 0340646241 9780340646236 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Arnold

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