02228nam a22003498a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002600224082001500250100002600265245006100291264005200352300005900404336002600463337002600489338003600515490003600551500007300587520104100660650001501701776003501716830003701751856007101788999001901859CR9780511777912UkCbUP20180107143411.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100519s2010||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511777912 (ebook)  z9780521517836 (hardback)  z9780521732031 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aP99.4.P72 bA747 201000a306.442221 aAriel, Mira,eauthor.10aDefining Pragmatics / [electronic resource]cMira Ariel. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (352 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aResearch Surveys in Linguistics  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aAlthough 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? 0aPragmatics08iPrint version: z9780521517836 0aResearch Surveys in Linguistics.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511777912zCambridge Books Online  c236453d236453