by Jenny Thomas · Routledge · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582291515
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«Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics» is Jenny Thomas's pragmatics textbook, published by Routledge in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Introduction to pragmatics that studies speaker meaning in interaction, with attention to the role of speaker and hearer and to social and psychological factors. It reviews the development of the discipline and covers speech acts, conversational implicature, indirectness and politeness. The work draws on examples from media, fiction and real life.
The work belongs to the Learning about Language series; it was published in 1995 and includes bibliography and indexes.
Intended for linguistics students with no prior knowledge of pragmatics and for readers interested in analyzing communication problems.
