Pragmatics by Chris Cummins (Paperback, 2019)

PragmaticsAuthor(s): Chris Cummins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474440035, 978-1474440035\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of English pragmatics with a thorough integration of theoretical and experimental research\nA central goal of pragmatics is to identify the capabilities that underpin our ability to communicate non-literal meanings. Guiding students through the many facets of English pragmatics, this textbook discusses the ways in which people successfully convey and recover meanings that are not simply associated with the combinations of words that they use.\nThe book draws on a broad range of data, including psycholinguistic experimentation, studies of acquisition and corpus research, and uses real examples from English to illuminate contemporary debates in pragmatics and related fields. With exercises and discussion topics at the end of each chapter, it invites students to explore how prag.