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Principles of pragmatics /

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0582551102

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9780582551107

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Principles of pragmatics /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Geoffrey N. Leech.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Longman,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1983.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 250 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

Longman linguistics library ;

Volume Designation

title no. 30

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.

Text of Note

1. Introduction --- 2. A set of postulates --- 3. Formalism and functionalism --- 4. The interpersonal role of the Cooperative Principle --- 5. The Tact Maxim --- 6. A survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric --- 7. Communicative Grammar: an example --- 8. Performatives --- 9. Speech-act verbs in English --- 10. Retrospect and prospect.

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Text of Note

Over the years, pragmatics -- the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations -- has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract -- i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense -- must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics.

Text of Note

This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.

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£5.95 : CIP rev.

Title

Principles of pragmatics.

Pragmatics-- Study and teaching.

Pragmatics.

Pragmatique.

Language-philosophy.

Pragmatics.

Pragmatik

Pragmatique.

Number

401LEE

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Leech, Geoffrey N.

Date of Transaction

20201207062722.0

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