Introduction to Pragmatics

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication.

Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics

Addresses the traditional range of topics – such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts – as well as newer areas of research, including neo-Gricean theories, Relevance theory, information structure, inference, and dynamic approaches to meaning

Explores the relationship and boundaries between semantics and pragmatics

Ideal for students coming to pragmatics for the first time