Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Understanding Pragmaties

Front Cover
0 Reviews
Arnold, 1999 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 295 pages
What do people do when using language? How exactly is meaning generated when we communicate? And why do we say one thing when we usually mean another?

Examining the mental and social processes involved in communication through language, Understanding Pragmaticsis a comprehensive introduction to the subject. This book provides an outline of the theoretical basis of pragmatics, examines its major theoretical perspectives and explores its methodological issues. Looking at pragmatics in its broadest sense, it covers the whole range of social, cultural and cognitive aspects in constructing meaning through language use. Assuming no background in pragmatics, the text provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries, suggestions for further reading and research topics for further study.

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Related books

References to this book

From other books

Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research
Phonological Studies
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

Critique in Interaction
Ben Rampton - Critique of Anthropology
话语礼貌与语用距离
王建华 - 2001 - 外国语: 上海外国语大学学报
英语口语课堂话语的调查与分析——个案研究
刘家荣, 蒋宇红 - 2004 - 外语教学与研究: 外国语文双月刊
All Scholar search results »

References from web pages

JSTOR: Understanding Pragmatics
BOOK NOTICES Understanding pragmatics. By JEF VERSCHUEREN. (Understanding lan- guage series.) London: Arnold, 1999. Pp. xiv, 295. As the preface says, ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0097-8507(200006)76%3A2%3C495%3AUP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W

JEF VERSCHUEREN, Understanding pragmatics.(Understanding language ...
JEF VERSCHUEREN, Understanding pragmatics.(Understanding language series.) London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 295. ...
journals.cambridge.org/ abstract_S0047404501231054

Understanding Pragmatics
Understanding Pragmatics by Jef Verschueren, ISBN 9780340646236, ISBN-10 0340646233, Published by Hodder and Stoughton in Paperback on 30/10/1998.
www.hoddereducation.co.uk/ Title/ 0340646233/ Understanding_Pragmatics.htm

Oxford University Press
Examining the mental and social processes involved in communicating through language, Understanding Pragmatics is a comprehensive introduction to the ...
www.oup.com/ ca/ isbn/ 0-340-64623-3

PII: S0378-2166(00)00022-9
Jef Verschueren, Understanding pragmatics. London: Arnold (Understanding Lan- ..... Understanding pragmatics. is a reader-friendly and well-structured book, ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/ retrieve/ pii/ S0378216600000229

Verschueren, Jef
Understanding pragmatics.- Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and ... Understanding pragmatics.- Ljubljana: Sloveens Ministerie van Opvoeding, 1999. ...
anet.ua.ac.be/ acadbib/ ua/ 166

NLB 1998: NLB-ENEWS 98:6 BOOKS & JOURNALS
UNDERSTANDING PRAGMATICS. Verschueren, Jef (Belgian National Science ... Understanding Pragmatics; Publication September 1998 c.288pp PB 0 340 64623 3 ...
helmer.hit.uib.no/ nlb/ arkiv/ 0014.html

LG3401 Meaning in Interaction
Verschueren, J. (1999) Understanding Pragmatics. London: Arnold Semino, E. (2000) “Schema and script theory”, in Byram, M. (ed.), Routledge encyclopaedia of ...
uclan.ac.uk/ facs/ class/ humanities/ modules/ lg3401.htm

Semantics & Pragmatics phd course VT03 Course Description
London. and New York: Longman. Verschueren, Jef. 1999. Understanding Pragmatics. London and New York: Arnold. Page 4. 4. Örebro University ...
www.oru.se/ oru-upload/ institutioner/ humaniora/ dokument/ engelska/ forskarutbildning/ semantics%20and%20pragmatics%20vt0...

The Social Economic and Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization
The theory of Linguistic Adaptation was proposed by Verschueren (1999) in Understanding Pragmatics and according to this theory, the reason that people can ...
www.linguist.org.cn/ doc/ su200410/ su20041008.doc

About the author (1999)

Jeff Verschueren is at Belgian National Science Foundation.

Bibliographic information