Why Language? What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language and Communication

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Langua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moeschler, Jacques
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
Series:	Mouton series in pragmatics ; 25.
Subjects:	Pragmatics. Generative Grammatik. Kognitive Linguistik. Relevanztheorie. Sprachevolution. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics. Evolution of Language. Relevance Theory. EBSCO eBooks Electronic books.
Online Access:	EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ

Table of Contents:

Part I: Language and communication
Introduction
Chapter 1 Eight commonplace assumptions about language
Chapter 2 Why is language not communication, and why is communication not language?
Chapter 3 Language structure and usage
Part II: Language, society, and discourse
Introduction
Chapter 4 The social dimension of language
Chapter 5 Language and discourse
Chapter 6 Ordinary and non-ordinary usages of language
Chapter 7 Superpragmatics
Conclusion: What we do and still do not know about

Why Language? What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language and Communication

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