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Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students » Read Now
by Joan Cutting. 187 pgs.

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Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the Routledge English Language Introductions series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...
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Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the Routledge English Language Introductions series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Pragmatics and Discourse: * covers all the core areas of the subject: context, co-text, speech acts, conversation, cooperative principle and politeness* draws on a wealth of real texts, from TV programmes such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Dalziel and Pascoe , to mobile text messages and Winnie the Pooh * provides classic readings from the key names in the discipline, from Sperber and Wilson to Hoey, Wodak and Gumperz.
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Mind, Code, and Context: Essays in Pragmatics » Read Now
by T. Givy. 456 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Pragmatic Development » Read Now
by Anat Ninio, Catherine E. Snow. 226 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The components of the pragmatic system - the rules for appropriate and communicatively effective language use - are presented in a way that shows how they relate to each other. The authors show how pragmatics relates to social development.
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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding » Read Now
by Georgia M. Green. 186 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Markers » Read Now
by Diane Blakemore. 200 pgs.

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The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Diane Blakemore asserts that the exercise in classification that has dominated...
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The importance of discourse markers (words like "so," "however," and "well") lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Diane Blakemore asserts that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding.
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Applied Organizational Communication: Perspectives, Principles, and Pragmatics » Read Now
by Thomas E. Harris. 504 pgs.

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Pragmatics and Pedagogy: Conversational Rules and Politeness Strategies May Inhibit Effective Tutoring, in Cognition and Instruction » Read Now
by Arthur C. Graesser, Roger J. Kreuz, Natalie K. Person. 28 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Psychological Pragmatics in Preadolescents: Sociomoral Understanding, Self-Worth, and School Behavior, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence » Read Now
by Sandra Leanne Bosacki. 1 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library
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Poetics and Pragmatics in the Vedic Liturgy for the Installation of the Sacrificial Post, in The Journal of the American Oriental Society » Read Now
by Theodore N. Proferes. 1 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Performing Texts ("Much Ado About Doing Things with Words (and Other Means): Some Problems in the Pragmatics of Theatre and Drama" begins on p. 39) » Read Now
by Michael Issacharoff, Robin F. Jones. 160 pgs.

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Thought and Reference (Chap. 4 "Semantics, Pragmatics, and Reference") » Read Now
by Kent Bach. 326 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Presenting a novel account of singular thought, a systematic application of recent work in the theory of speech acts, and a partial revival of Russell's analysis of singular terms, this book takes an original approach to the perennial problems of reference and singular terms by separating the...
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Presenting a novel account of singular thought, a systematic application of recent work in the theory of speech acts, and a partial revival of Russell's analysis of singular terms, this book takes an original approach to the perennial problems of reference and singular terms by separating the underlying issues into different levels of analysis.
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Education and the Postmodern Condition ("Critical Pedagogy and the Pragmatics of Justice" begins on p. 87) » Read Now
by Michael Peters. 228 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others. This collection of 10 essays brings...
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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others. This collection of 10 essays brings together for the first time a number of contributions on Lyotard's work made by philosophers, educationalists, and sociologists in the English-speaking world around the special focus of education. The intent behind the essays from scholars in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is to examine Lyotard's notion of the postmodern condition and its relevance and special significance for the field of education. Lyotard's work, first published in Paris in 1979, was important in that it developed a particularly original interpretation of the state of knowledge in the most highly developed societies, reviewing and synthesizing a wide range of material on contemporary science, the sociology of postindustrial society and studies of postmodern culture. Lyotard brought together diverse threads and separate literatures in a prophetic analysis that signalled an epochal break with the so-called modern era.
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