Pragmatics
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Pragmatics

Chris Cummins

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Pragmatics

Chris Cummins

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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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Year
2005
ISBN
9781474440042
14 
PRAGMATICS
c. 
It 
is 
what 
it 
is.
d. 
If 
John 
turns 
up, 
I’ll 
eat 
my 
hat.
e. 
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’ 
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 
second, 
and 
then 
you’ll 
have 
my 
full 
attention.
Discussion 
questions
1. 
In 
section 
1.3, 
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 
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?

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