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Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmatics

ISBN: 978-0-631-15867-7
Paperback
204 pages
July 1992, Wiley-Blackwell
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This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to utterance understanding, which is then applied to the analysis of a range of phenomena which are central to pragmatics.