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In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Generally speaking, turns are short (around 2 seconds long on average), and they occur rapidly after one another, with only about 5 per cent of the speech stream in overlap (Reference Levinson and Torreira Levinson & Torreira 2015; Reference Levinson Levinson 2016). Most surprisingly, dependent a bit upon the sample, the gap between turns is ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Stephen C. Levinson. 3.90. 171 ratings6 reviews. Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis ...
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Levinson,Stephen C. Space in language and cognition: explorations in cognitive diversity / Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics). p. cm. – (Language,culture and cognition; ) Includes bibliographical references and index. (hb) – (pb)
The detailed analyses of selected topics give the student a clear view of the empirical rigour demanded by the study of linguistic pragmatics, but Dr Levinson never loses sight of the rich diversity of the subject. An introduction and conclusion relate pragmatics to other fields in linguistics and other disciplines concerned with language usage ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Levinson, S. C. 1994, Vision, shape and linguistic description: Tzeltal body-part terminology and object description, in J. B. Haviland and S. C. Levinson (eds.), Space in Mayan Languages, Special issue of Linguistics 32(4): 791–855
