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Act Iii
advanced pragmatic communication models
Approbation Maxim
Author_Geoffrey N. Leech
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Commissive Verbs
conversational implicature
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force
functional linguistics
Generosity Maxim
Hinting Strategy
illocutionary
Illocutionary Acts
Illocutionary Force
Illocutionary Goal
Illocutionary Performatives
Illocutionary Verb
illocutions
Impolite Beliefs
indirect
Indirect Illocutions
interpersonal
Interpersonal Rhetoric
John Smiths
language use analysis
linguistic pragmatics
Main Verb
Modesty Maxim
Oratio Obliqua
Performative Fallacy
Performative Hypothesis
Performative Verbs
politeness theory
Relative Politeness
rhetoric
Searle's Speech Act Theory
Searle’s Speech Act Theory
speech
speech act research
Speech Act Verb
tact
Tact Maxim
verbs
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780582551107
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 1983
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'.
In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics.
The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.
