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Publication details [#25597]

Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke. 1994. Language, action and context: Linguistic pragmatics in Europe and America (1800-1950). Journal of Pragmatics 22 (5) : 439–463.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | linguistics | philosophy | pragmatics | psychology

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper shows how the European (Anglo-Saxon, French and German) and American approaches to pragmatics are rooted in the linguistic, philosophical and psychological traditions of the past.