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"In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics." "Pragmatics encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences; provides a basic understanding of key pra…
Culture and language use
by Östman, Jan-Ola, Verschueren, Jef, Senft, Gunter
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Language is always generated and interpreted in a certain context, and the semantic, syntactic, and lexical properties of linguistic expressions reflect this. Interactive language understanding systems, such as language-based dialogue systems, therefore have to apply contextual …
This is a study of the relationship between performance and power. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings and examines the elements of social performance.--Résumé de l'éditeur.