Pragmatics and Grammar

by Mira Ariel

Book Overview

When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521559944
• ISBN13: 9780521559942
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.6"