Principles of pragmatics
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Longman, 1983Description: xii, 250 p. : illustrationsISBN: 0582551102 (pbk.); 9780582551107Subject(s): Pragmatics | Pragmatics -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 410 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes index.
1. Introduction ---
2. A set of postulates ---
3. Formalism and functionalism ---
4. The interpersonal role of the Cooperative Principle ---
5. The Tact Maxim ---
6. A survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric ---
7. Communicative Grammar: an example ---
8. Performatives ---
9. Speech-act verbs in English ---
10. Retrospect and prospect.
This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.
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