Human expression is open-ended, versatile, and diverse, ranging from ordinary language
use to painting, from exaggerated displays of affection to micro-movements that aid …

Pragmatics: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the study of verbal
and nonverbal communication in context. Including nine chapters on the history of …

Gricean Circle, 84 Gricean Maxims, 353, 373 grounding biological, 3, 349, 354, 358, 372,
373 cognitive, 109, 117 hedge attitudinal hedge, 326, 330, 338, 341 epistemic hedge, 323 …

This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-
pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely …

Literary pragmatics and pragmatic stylistics have emerged out of work within this field and
share these same concerns regard to literary texts. While various theories and scholars …

This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the
premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve …

Pragmatics-the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people
say-is a core subject in English language, linguistics, and communication studies. This …

There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to
human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not …

Using the example of newspaper headlines, this paper develops a speech-act theoretic
approach to aspects of meaning that can be communicated through the use of typographic …

Semantic gesture is considered one of Jan Mukařovský's key conceptual contributions to the
theory of (artistic) communication. It is also a contribution that is still commented on and …