Pragmatics Paperback

Yan Huang

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions. The book draws on data from English and a wide range of the world's languages, and shows how pragmatics is related to the study of semantics, syntax, and sociolinguistics and to such fields as the philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, and artificial intelligence. Professor Huang includes exercises and essay topics at the end of each chapter, and offers guidance and suggested solutions at the end of the volume. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, this new edition will continue to be an ideal textbook for students of linguistics, and a valuable resource for scholars and students of language in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and computer science.

9780199577767

English

Oxford University Press

27/Jan/15

492

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and has previously taught at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, and Oxford. His published work includes The Syntax of Anaphora (CUP 1994), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000), and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (OUP 2012).

[T]he book is very thorough in its coverage of topics within the field. Mindful of its student audience, it also has extensive study questions, examples, and glossaries. My overall impression is that it is a valuable textbook to anyone in the field of pragmatics * The Linguist List * This new publication by Professor Huang ... gives a very thorough introduction to this subdiscipline in linguistics, which is becoming increasingly interwined with psychology and neurolinguistics. ... I would therefore recommend this introductory text to any postgraduates or researchers in psycholinguistics * The Psychologist * Review from previous edition [A]n excellent textbook in pragmatics. ... Huang's achievement is impressive * Journal of Pragmatics *