Why Language? : : What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Moeschler, Jacques,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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