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Verschueren, Jef, ed. 1991. Pragmatics at issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 6:1). John Benjamins. viii + 314 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume has no thematic focus, but covers a wide range of topics in pragmatics, such as 'the relation of pragmatics to grammar and semantics, intentionality, communicative succes, the status of literal meaning, the nature of utterances in conversation, the notion of argumentation, the acquisition of reference and conversational skills, the problem of fthe computational processing of communication' (p. vii).

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