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BL
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1038909
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b793279
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| Main Entry
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Leech, Geoffrey N.
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| Title & Author
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Principles of pragmatics /\ Geoffrey N. Leech.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Longman,, 1983.
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| Series Statement
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Longman linguistics library ;; title no. 30
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xii, 250 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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0582551102
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: 9780582551107
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-241) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction --- 2. A set of postulates --- 3. Formalism and functionalism --- 4. The interpersonal role of the Cooperative Principle --- 5. The Tact Maxim --- 6. A survey of the Interpersonal Rhetoric --- 7. Communicative Grammar: an example --- 8. Performatives --- 9. Speech-act verbs in English --- 10. Retrospect and prospect.
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| Abstract
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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.
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This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics. Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric, maintaining that the language system in the abstract must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use.
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Pragmatics-- Study and teaching.
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatique.
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Language-philosophy.
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Pragmatics.
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Pragmatik
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Pragmatique.
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| Dewey Classification
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401
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410
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| LC Classification
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P99.4.P72L43 1983
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17.61bcl
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801ndc8
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801njb/9
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ER 940rvk
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