The contributors to this volume tend to agree on one thing: semantic theory cannot retain its traditional purity, free of pragmatic contextual considerations. This claim provides the setting for various provocative approaches to a precise definition of pragmatics and its reconciliation with semantics—a collection of leading-edge work examining the semantics/pragmatics dispute in terms of a broad range of phenomena, showing how these issues reach from linguistics into a number of other fields, and examining the role of pragmatics in different forms of cross-cultural communication.
| ISBN: | 9781575864587 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2004 |
| Author: | Claudia Bianchi |
| Publisher: | Centre for the Study of Language & Information |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |