Doing pragmatics / Peter Grundy

Incluye Índice: p. 310-315

Incluye Glosario: p. 298-302

Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to 'do' pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those stud

Doing Pragmatics remains popular through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous edition, the third editions is fully revised and expanded.Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original book, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real-world data and fascinating examples which are insightfully analysed. New chapters include pragmatic inference and language evolution, and intercultural pragmatics. Each chapter opens with an introductory section followed by a discussion of theory and an anaysis of examples of naturally occurring data, and concludes with a section exploring problematic issues. Checking understanding boxes appear throughout the chapters allowing students to monitor their progress as they work through the book. All chapters conclude with activities designed to raise pragmatic awareness, suggestions for further reading and, new to this edition, discussion topics and essay titles

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