内容简介
出版于1996年,是一部介绍语用学研究发展的导论性著作。作者G?尤尔(George Yule)原是美国路易斯安那州立大学的语言学教授,现定居夏威夷,继续坚持学术创作。 本书的主体(概述)部分分为九章。
目录
1 Definitions and background
Syntax,semantics,and pragmatics
Regularity
the pragmatics wastebasket
2 Deixis and distance
Person deixis
Spatial deixis
Temporal deixis
Deixis and grammar
3 Reference and inference
Referential and attributive uses
Names and referents
The role of co-text
Anaphoric reference
4 Presupposition and entailment
Presupposition
Types of presupposition
The projeciton problem
Ordered entailments
5 Cooperation and implicature