This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics, the study of language in use.
Pragmatics is a central subject in linguistics and philosophy and an increasingly important topic in fields such as cognitive science, informatics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and pathology. Its rapid development has produced new theories, methods, approaches, and schools of thought. These in turn have resulted in a vast vocabulary of new terms and in modified meanings for existing terms. Such terms help advance...

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions.
The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages,...

This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics, the study of language in use.
Pragmatics is a central subject in linguistics and philosophy and an increasingly important topic in fields such as cognitive science, informatics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and pathology. Its rapid development has produced new theories, methods, approaches, and schools of thought. These in turn have resulted in a vast vocabulary of new terms and in modified meanings for existing terms. Such terms help advance...

Publikace Yana Huanga představuje důkladný úvod do studia pragmatiky. Věnuje se klíčovým oblastem pragmatického bádání – implikatuře, presupozici, řečovým aktům, deixi a referenci, rozebírá vztahy pragmatiky ke kognici, sémantice a syntaxi. Autor systematicky vysvětluje různé přístupy k uchopování složitosti lidské komunikace a ukazuje jejich přednosti a problémy na množství příkladů, k čemuž využívá materiál z mnoha světových jazyků.
Kniha je vstřícnou učebnicí – po každé oblasti shrnuje nejdůležitější pojmy a čtenář si...