02228nam a22003498a 4500 CR9780511777912 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511777912 (ebook) 9780521517836 (hardback) 9780521732031 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda P99.4.P72 A747 2010 306.44 22 Ariel, Mira, author. Defining Pragmatics / [electronic resource] Mira Ariel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Research Surveys in Linguistics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic? Pragmatics Print version: 9780521517836 Research Surveys in Linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777912 Cambridge Books Online 236453 236453