Understanding Utterances

Understanding Utterances
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 0631158677
ISBN-13 : 9780631158677
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Book Synopsis Understanding Utterances by : Diane Blakemore

Download or read book Understanding Utterances written by Diane Blakemore and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.


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