Product Description: A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Pragmatics II is a four-volume collection of the very best scholarship on pragmatics. It is an essential successor collection to the editor’s Pragmatics (6 vols...read more

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This timely collection, for the first time together in one place, gives students and researchers access to the major works of the history of pragmatics and the science of language use. Readers can now critically assess the subject matter, methods, theories and applications that have shaped this exciting area of language study.These important volumes portray the development of pragmatics as a science of language use. The whole spectrum of relevant areas, from theoretical linguistics and philosophy, through psychology and sociology, to neuroscience, speech rehabilitation and computer science is represented.Issues explored include:* presupposition* implicature* discourse* grammar* communication* indexicals* psychology* sociology.This work also provides highly useful references and suggestions for additional papers to be consulted, and has an exceptionally detailed subject and name index to enable easy and immediate access for the reader.

Noam Chomsky's work has profoundly influenced current thinking on the mind and language. This volume contains two new papers by Chomsky and assesses the "Chomskyan turn" in linguistic and cognitive sciences. The essays by Chomsky review the current state of the generative enterprise, and present his functional approach to principles of universal grammar. The chapters in the second part of the book explore different facets of Chomsky's contribution to linguistics and the adjacent fields of philosophy and psychology. They cover a range of topics including semantics, pragmatics and Cartesian linguistics.

Product Description: The papers collected in this volume consist of the contributions presented at the Second Israeli Cognitive Symposium, held at Tel Aviv University, April 1-4, 1986. The biannual Israeli Cognitive Symposia are organized by the Tel Aviv University Cognitive Studies Working Group, consisting of linguists, psychologists, poeticians and philosophers...read more