Why Language? : What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language and Communication / Jacques Moeschler.
There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved. Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Langu...
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Mouton series in pragmatics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Language and communication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Eight commonplace assumptions about language
- Chapter 2 Why is language not communication, and why is communication not language?
- Chapter 3 Language structure and usage
- Part II: Language, society, and discourse
- Introduction
- Chapter 4 The social dimension of language
- Chapter 5 Language and discourse
- Chapter 6 Ordinary and non-ordinary usages of language
- Chapter 7 Superpragmatics
- Conclusion: What we do and still do not know about.