Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

by Henry Green and Georgia Green

Book Overview

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is intended to make issues involved in language understanding, such as speech, text, and discourse, accessible to the widest group possible -- not just specialists in linguistics or communication theorists -- but all scholars and researchers whose enterprises depend on having...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805821651
• ISBN13: 9780805821659
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"