Birner, Betty J.

Introduction to pragmatics / Betty J. Birner. - Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, 2013. - xiii, 326 pages ; 25 cm - Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ; 24 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [306]-319) and index.

Defining pragmatics -- Gricean implicature -- Later approaches to implicature -- Reference -- Presupposition -- Speech acts -- Information structure -- Inferential relations -- Dynamic semantics and the representation of discourse.

9781405175838 (pbk.) 9781405175821 (cloth)

2012005347


Pragmatics.

P99.4 / BIR 2013

401/.45