00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612386108 Buklod 20170213125409.0 a r |||| u| ta 170213s2015 xx d r |||| u| 9780415746441 (pbk) (iLib)UPD-00261909978 CAL-12253 Fastbooks Php3,895.00 Department of English and Comparative Literature DLC DCAL rda eng DMLUC P 302.84 Z84 2015 Zufferey, Sandrine author. Acquiring pragmatics social and cognitive perspectives Sandrine Zufferey. London Routledge 2015. xii, 202 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. During the past decades, pragmatics has been a rapidly growing field of study, and considerable paradigm shifts have occurred. From the study of socially determined rules governing the production of speech acts, pragmatics has now also become part of the cognitive sciences, and aims at understanding how listeners bridge the gap between the under-determined linguistic meaning of utterances and the full-blown speaker's meaning. Acquiring Pragmatics is a comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art research on the acquisition of pragmatics, covering both social and cognitive dimensions. The text introduces advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholars from neighboring fields of study to the current topics of research in theoretical pragmatics, the issues they raise for language acquisition research and the new experimental designs that have been developed to address them empirically. Discourse analysis Social aspects. Pragmatics Social aspects. Speech acts (Linguistics). Cognitive grammar. Language acquisition. FO UPD DCAL P 302.84 Z84 2015 Book