Pragmatics and Grammar

English

Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Ser.

ISBN: 0511421095

EAN: 9780511421099

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 05/31/2008

Synopsis: 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 two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.

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