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Title: | Review of Anne O'Keeffe, Brian Clancy and Svenja Adolphs, Introducing Pragmatics in Use, London and New York: Routledge, 2011; viii + 188 pp., £19.99 (pbk) | Contributor(s): | Yin, Zihan (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1177/1461445613489923e | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/23260 | Abstract: | Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a reader-friendly introduction book. Pragmatics is a notoriously difficult linguistic concept: Ariel (2010) wrote a whole book on defining pragmatics. Instead of providing a thorough literature review on the definitions of pragmatics, which would remain inconclusive, authors of this book adopted a 'user-friendly definition' (p. 1) by Fasold (1990: 119): 'the study of the use of context to make inferences about meaning'. Difficulty in understanding this abstract concept has been further eased by examples of language data (pp. 1-2) and through detailed explanation of the difference between content meaning of a particular sentence and meaning in context. Useful information is helpfully presented in information boxes in each chapter, and further readings are recommended at the end of each chapter. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Discourse Studies, 15(4), p. 490-491 | Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1461-7080 1461-4456 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Maori) 200403 Discourse and Pragmatics |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390108 LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy 470405 Discourse and pragmatics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950202 Languages and Literacy | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130202 Languages and linguistics | HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work |
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