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Pragmatics
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The 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.
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14
PRAGMATICS
c.
It
is
what
it
is.
d.
If
John
turns
up,
I’ll
eat
my
hat.
e.
I
don’t
think
John
will
come.
f.
Mary
saw
the
man
with
the
binoculars.
2.
Suppose
that
the
hearer
of
the
following
remarks
failed
to
respond
(that
is,
they
‘produced’
a
silence).
How
might
the
speaker
interpret
that,
and
why?
a.
You’re
thinking
about
her
again,
aren’t
you?
b.
You’re
not
listening,
are
you?
c.
Hang
on
–
just
give
me
a
second,
and
then
you’ll
have
my
full
attention.
Discussion
questions
1.
In
section
1.3,
I
speculated
that
humans
would
be
able
to
com-
municate
somewhat
effectively
relying
purely
on
semantics,
in
the
absence
of
any
pragmatic
competence.
But
what
about
acquisition?
In
what
ways
could
we
expect
a
lack
of
pragmatic
ability
–
broadly
construed
–
to
obstruct
or
slow
down
the
acquisition
of
language?
2.
What
kinds
of
communication
difficulties
might
we
expect
to
run
into
if
we
were
talking
to
–
or
even
trying
to
design
–
an
automated
system
for
understanding
language?
How
many
of
these
difficulties
are
essentially
‘pragmatic’
in
nature?
Table of contents
- Pragmatics
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What is pragmatics?
- 2 Pragmatic theories
- 3 Implicature
- 4 Presupposition
- 5 Referring
- 6 Non-literal language
- 7 Arranging information in coherent discourse
- 8 Speech acts
- References
- Index