Understanding Utterances An Introduction to Pragmatics
, by Blakemore, Diane- ISBN: 9780631158677 | 0631158677
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/27/1992
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.