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Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges. Jan 04, 2014 pragmatics, yan huang, oxford university press, 2007, 0199298378, 9780199298372, 346 pages. Jan 27, 2015 yan huang s highly successful textbook on pragmatics the study of language in use has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. Pragmatics paperback yan huang oxford university press. Sep 11, 2011 ebook download pragmatics oxford textbooks in linguistics, by yan huang. Yan huang s highly successful textbook on pragmatics the study of language in use. He has written three books and various articles, among which pragmemes, on grices circle, belief reports and pragmatic intrusion. It opens with a discussion of the scope, meaning, and history of pragmatics from aristotle to the present. The pragmatics of deferred interpretation 344 geoffrey nunberg 16. He has a phd from the university of cambridge and a dphil from the university of. The connection between philosophy and pragmatics is double. He also includes three interface chapters on pragmatics and cognition including relevance theory, pragmatics and semantics, and pragmatics and syntax. Part iv takes a look at socially and culturallyoriented pragmatics such as politenessimpoliteness studies, cross and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics.
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