Pragmatics Books

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Pragmatics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Pragmatics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.92 — 180 ratings — published 1983
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How to Do Things with Words How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,676 ratings — published 1955
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Studies in the Way of Words Studies in the Way of Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 119 ratings — published 1989
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 511 ratings — published 1969
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Using Language Using Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 63 ratings — published 1996
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CrossCultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction CrossCultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 1991
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The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics) The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2012
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The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) The Handbook of Pragmatics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2003
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Pragmatics Pragmatics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 429 ratings — published
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Relevance: Communication & Cognition Relevance: Communication & Cognition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 80 ratings — published 1986
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Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics (Learning about Language) Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics (Learning about Language)
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avg rating 3.88 — 114 ratings — published 1995
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Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2002
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Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.82 — 61 ratings — published 2004
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Understanding Pragmatics (Understanding Language) Understanding Pragmatics (Understanding Language)
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avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published 1998
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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics 4)
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avg rating 4.19 — 126 ratings — published 1987
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Mental Spaces (Volume 0) Mental Spaces (Volume 0)
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avg rating 3.91 — 53 ratings — published 1985
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Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions) Pragmatics and Discourse: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions)
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avg rating 3.48 — 40 ratings — published 2002
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The Logic of Conventional Implicatures (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics) The Logic of Conventional Implicatures (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2004
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Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1999
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Pragmatics (Macmillan Modern Linguistics, 6) Pragmatics (Macmillan Modern Linguistics, 6)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 2011
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A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics (Glossaries in Linguistics) A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics (Glossaries in Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2006
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Introduction to Pragmatics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) Introduction to Pragmatics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.69 — 29 ratings — published 2012
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Logic and Conversation Logic and Conversation
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avg rating 4.18 — 28 ratings — published 1967
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Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics) Assessing Second Language Pragmatics (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2013
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Pragmatics Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2007
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Relevance Theory: Applications and implications (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) Relevance Theory: Applications and implications (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1998
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Text and Context : Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse Text and Context : Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1980
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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 17) Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 17)
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avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 1996
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Introducing Performative Pragmatics Introducing Performative Pragmatics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2005
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Interlanguage Pragmatics Interlanguage Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 1993
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Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 949 ratings — published 1967
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Syntax and Semantics: Pragmatics Syntax and Semantics: Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1978
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Foundations of Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS], 1) Foundations of Pragmatics (Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS], 1)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2011
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Meaning and Relevance Meaning and Relevance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published 2012
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Pragmatics and Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) Pragmatics and Grammar (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 2008
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The Interaction Engine: Language in Social Life and Human Evolution The Interaction Engine: Language in Social Life and Human Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published
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Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language Pragmatics of Chinese as Native and Target Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1995
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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1995
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Pragmatic Development in a Second Language (Language Learning Monograph) Pragmatic Development in a Second Language (Language Learning Monograph)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2003
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Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 101) (German Edition) Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 101) (German Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1981
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Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1975
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The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
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Pragmatics in Language Teaching Pragmatics in Language Teaching (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2001
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Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity (Language Culture and Cognition, Series Number 6) Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity (Language Culture and Cognition, Series Number 6)
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avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2006
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Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context (Pali Language Texts. Polynesia) Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context (Pali Language Texts. Polynesia)
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avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 1997
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Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study (Leather Bound)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1960
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Logics of Conversation Logics of Conversation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2003
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Steven Pinker
“Radical Pragmatics – “words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.”
Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.”
Matthieu Queloz, The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering

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