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Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics

Author: Yan Huang   Series: Dictionary

A comprehensive guide to the terms, concepts, and theories of pragmatics from the traditional to the most recent, showing how they originated and how they are used. A vital resource for students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computational linguistics.

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A comprehensive guide to the terms, concepts, and theories of pragmatics from the traditional to the most recent, showing how they originated and how they are used. A vital resource for students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computational linguistics.

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This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics. Pragmatics is a central subject in linguistics and philosophy and an increasingly important topic in fields such as cognitive science, informatics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and pathology. Its rapid development has produced new theories, methods, approaches, and schools of thought. These in turn haveresulted in a vast vocabulary of new terms and in modified meanings for existing terms. Such terms help advance research and facilitate discussion, but they can also cause confusion and act as barriersto understanding and communication. Yan Huang defines and explains them all, from the most traditional to the most recent. Covering every branch of research and all theoretical approaches and with the needs of students and researchers firmly in mind he writes each entry in the simplest possible terms for the subject in question, gives references to relevant seminal and recent work, provides numerous cross-references to related entries, and shows how each term and concept is applied and used indifferent contexts.Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Professor Huang's dictionary will be a much valued resource for students and researchers in every aspect ofthe field.

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“Review from previous edition [G]raduate students and researchers in linguistics are definitely an ideal audience. For them, this is a book to keep on a nearby shelf, for easy and frequent access, as the wide range of material it covers makes it a valuable resource that will be referred to again and again.”

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About the Author

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught linguistics at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP 1994, re-issued in 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000),and Pragmatics (OUP 2007, re-issued in 2014). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics planned for publication in 2015.

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This dictionary provides a full and authoritative guide to the meanings of the terms, concepts, and theories employed in pragmatics. Pragmatics is a central subject in linguistics and philosophy and an increasingly important topic in fields such as cognitive science, informatics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and pathology. Its rapid development has produced new theories, methods, approaches, and schools of thought. These in turn have resulted in a vast vocabulary of new terms and in modified meanings for existing terms. Such terms help advance research and facilitate discussion, but they can also cause confusion and act as barriers to understanding and communication. Yan Huang defines and explains them all, from the most traditional to the most recent. Covering every branch of research and all theoretical approaches and with the needs of students and researchers firmly in mind he writes each entry in the simplest possible terms for the subject in question, gives references to relevant seminal and recent work, provides numerous cross-references to related entries, and shows how each term and concept is applied and used in different contexts.Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Professor Huang's dictionary will be a much valued resource for students and researchers in every aspect of the field.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press UK
Published
4th December 2014
Pages
348
ISBN
9780198712817

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