Browsing by Subject "Pragmatics"

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    • Cross-cultural pragmatics : the semantics of human interaction 

      Wierzbicka, Anna (Mouton de Gruyter, 2003)
      The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings ...

    • Interpersonal pragmatics 

      Locher, Miriam A. (editor); Graham, Sage L. (editor) (De Gruyter Mouton, 2010)
      This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. ...

    • Interpretation and understanding 

      Dascal, Marcelo (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003)
      This book deals with how we achieve the daily miracle of understanding each other. Based on the author 's contributions to pragmatics, the book articulates his perspective using the insights of linguistics, the philosophy ...

    • Pragmatics 

      Yule, George (Oxford University Press, 1996)
      This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, ...

    • Teaching business discourse 

      Ilie, Cornelia; Nickerson, Catherine; Planken, Brigitte (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
      This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of ...