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Critical Pragmatics : An Inquiry into Reference and Communication

ISBN: 9780521764971 | 0521764971
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 9/26/2011

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SummaryTable of Contents
Korta and Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how language study fits within the broader picture of human thought and action. They argue that the process of referentialism focuses on utterances and emphasizes that in communication we rely on utterance-bound ways of thinking of referents.
Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines ... MORE
Introduction
A short history of reference
Acts, roles and singular reference
Elements of reference
Demonstratives
Context sensitivity and indexicals
Names
Definite descriptions
Implicit reference and unarticulated constituents
Locutionary content and speech acts
Reference an... MORE
Semantics, pragmatics and critical pragmatics
Harnessing information
Examples
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