Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics.

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
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. 1. Grammar and rhetoric within a functional view of language
  • 3. 1.0 Preface
  • 4. 1.1 Grammar and rhetoric
  • 5. 1.2 Functionalism and formalism
  • 6. 1.3 Textual and interpersonal rhetoric
  • 7. 1.4 Via media
  • 8. 2. Natural language as metalanguage
  • 9. 2.0 Preface
  • 10. 2.1 Introduction
  • 11. 2.2 Metalanguage
  • 12. 2.3 The semantic representation of metareference
  • 13. 2.4 The problem of direct and indirect speech
  • 14. 2.5 The problem of semantic acceptability in reporting sentences
  • 15. 2.6 The problem of referential opacity
  • 16. 2.7 The problem of presuppositions
  • 17. 2.8 Conclusion
  • 18. 3. Metalanguage, pragmatics, and performatives
  • 19. 3.0 Preface
  • 20. 3.1 The performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis
  • 21. 3.2 Indirect speech and modes of mention
  • 22. 3.3 A sketch of the pragmatic analysis
  • 23. 3.4 Comparison of the performative hypothesis and the pragmatic analysis
  • 24. 3.5 Conclusion
  • 25. 4. Language and tact
  • 26. 4.0 Preface
  • 27. 4.1 Introduction
  • 28. 4.2 "Direct and indirect illocutions" versus "sense and force"
  • 29. 4.3 Searle's approach compared with the present one
  • 30. 4.4 Gordon and Lakoff's conversational postulates
  • 31. 4.5 Sadock's `extended performative hypothesis'
  • 32. 4.6 Relation between sense and force
  • 33. 4.7 Explanation of `indirectness' by conversational principles
  • 34. 4.8 Recapitulation
  • 35. 4.9 The logical form (sense) of a sentence
  • 36. 4.10 The pragmatic force of a sentence
  • 37. 4.11 Negative politeness
  • 38. 4.12 The tact maxim
  • 39. 4.13 The hinting strategy
  • 40. 4.14 Pragmatic space
  • 41. 4.15 Conclusion
  • 42. Footnotes
  • 43. References

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