| Description |
xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Longman linguistics library ; title no. 30 |
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Longman linguistics library ; title no. 30
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| Contents |
1. Introduction --- 2. A set of postulates --- 3. Formalism and functionalism --- 4. The interpersonal role of the Cooperative Principle --- 5. The Tact Maxim --- 6. A survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric --- 7. Communicative Grammar: an example --- 8. Performatives --- 9. Speech-act verbs in English --- 10. Retrospect and prospect |
| Summary |
Over the years, pragmatics -- the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations -- has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract -- i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense -- must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics |
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This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use |
| Analysis |
Pragmatics |
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Language Pragmatics |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index |
| Subject |
Pragmatics -- Study and teaching.
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Pragmatics.
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| LC no. |
82022850 |
| ISBN |
0582551102 |
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9780582551107 |
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