Pragmatics and Discourse, 2ndedition: has been revised and reorganised to place more emphasis on pragmaticscovers the core areas of the subject: context and co-text, Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Exchange Structure, Interactional Sociolinguistics, the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Theory and extends to more applied areas: Corpus Linguistics & Communities of Practice, and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics & language learningdraws on a wealth of texts: from Bend it Like Beckham and The Motorcycle Diaries to political speeches, newspaper extracts and blogs.provides classic readings from the key names in the discipline, from Sperber and Wilson to Fairclough, Wodak and Gumperzis accompanied by a supporting websiteKey features of the new edition include: two new strands on Corpora & Communities and Culture & Language Learning; the merging of two strands on Context and Co-text; new material from speaker-based cognitive linguistics; updated references; and fresh examples and exercises.Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics.
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Pragmatics and Discourse, 2ndedition: has been revised and reorganised to place more emphasis on pragmaticscovers the core areas of the subject: context and co-text, Speech Act Theory, Conversation Analysis, Exchange Structure, Interactional Sociolinguistics, the Cooperative Principle, Politeness Theory and extends to more applied areas: Corpus Linguistics & Communities of Practice, and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics & language learningdraws on a wealth of texts: from Bend it Like Beckham and The Motorcycle Diaries to political speeches, newspaper extracts and blogs.provides classic readings from the key names in the discipline, from Sperber and Wilson to Fairclough, Wodak and Gumperzis accompanied by a supporting websiteKey features of the new edition include: two new strands on Corpora & Communities and Culture & Language Learning; the merging of two strands on Context and Co-text; new material from speaker-based cognitive linguistics; updated references; and fresh examples and exercises.Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics.