Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics.

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Author / Creator:	Leech, Geoffrey N.
Imprint:	Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980.
Description:	1 online resource (141 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond ; no. 5 Pragmatics & beyond ; 1:5.
Subject:	Semantics. Pragmatics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Metalanguage. Speech acts (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general. Metalanguage. Pragmatics. Semantics. Speech acts (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122173

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ISBN:	9789027281098 9027281092
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	The aim of this book is to show the way forward to a coherent view of language in which the achievement of the formalist paradigm is strengthened to the extent that its claims are weakened. A formal theory such as generative grammar is a special theory which is to be subsumed in a general theory of linguistic communication that also includes pragmatics. The tension between the psycho-formalist and the socio-functional views could be resolved in a synthesis whereby both the psychological and social natures of language are fully acknowledged. Semantics and pragmatics, representing these two natu.
Other form:	Print version: Leech, Geoffrey N. Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1980 9789027225061

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