Pragmatics

Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics

by Yan Huang

Yan Huang provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the central topics in pragmatics--implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and deixis. He also includes three 'interface' chapters on pragmatics and cognition (including relevance theory), pragmatics and semantics, and
pragmatics and syntax. The survey and analyses are based on a rich collection of data drawn from a wide range of the world's languages.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language

348 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Zahavah]

Class textbook. I admit I only read the chapters required and remain glad I was able to check this one out from the library. Not a subject I understood very well. Oh well. At least I passed the test. 🤷‍♀️

[Shaimaa]

A very clearly written introductory textbook. It comes with exercises at the end of each chapter for practice as well!

[Larry]

This is not a very helpful book because nobody agrees on what anything is in this field. But as far as introductions go, it’s an honorable attempt at doing the impossible