num_pages: 366
description: Yan Huang provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the central topics in pragmatics--implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and deixis. He also includes three 'interface' chapters on pragmatics and cognition (including relevance theory), pragmatics and semantics, andpragmatics and syntax. The survey and analyses are based on a rich collection of data drawn from a wide range of the world's languages.
language: English
title: Pragmatics
publisher: Oxford University Press