Why Language? : : What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication / / Jacques Moeschler.
There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Langua...
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Moeschler, Jacques, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Why Language? : What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication / Jacques Moeschler. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (XV, 246 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 1864-6409 ; 25 Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Caveats -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Language and communication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Eight commonplace assumptions about language -- Chapter 2 Why is language not communication, and why is communication not language? -- Chapter 3 Language structure and usage -- Part II: Language, society, and discourse -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 The social dimension of language -- Chapter 5 Language and discourse -- Chapter 6 Ordinary and non-ordinary usages of language -- Chapter 7 Superpragmatics -- Conclusion: What we do and still do not know about language -- Afterword -- Glossary -- References -- Name index -- Subject index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Language? addresses many questions that everyone has about language. Starting from false claims about language and languages, showing that language is not communication and communication is not language, the first part (Language and Communication) ends by proposing a difference between linguistic rules and communicative principles. The second part (Language, Society, Discourse) includes domains of language and language uses which are generally taken as extrinsic to language, such as language variety, discourse and non-ordinary (literary) usages. Special attention is given to figures of discourse (metaphor, metonymy, irony) and literary usages such as narration and free indirect style. The reader, either specialist or amateur in language science, will find a first and unique synthesis about what we know today about language and what we have yet to learn, sketching what could be the future of linguistics in the next decades. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) Pragmatics. Generative Grammatik. Kognitive Linguistik. Relevanztheorie. Sprachevolution. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics. bisacsh Evolution of Language. Relevance Theory. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 9783110750720 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2021 Part 1 9783110750706 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2021 English 9783110754117 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2021 9783110753882 ZDB-23-DSP EPUB 9783110723441 print 9783110723328 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723380 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110723380 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110723380/original |
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