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Publication details [#6052]

Leech, Geoffrey N. 1983. Principles of pragmatics. Longman. xii + 250 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

functionalism vs. formalism | pragmatic theory

Annotation

A survey of the field of pragmatics, written from the point of view that the use of language should be studied as distinct from, but complementary to, the language itself seen as a formal system (a complementarist view).

Reviewed by

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1984. Review of $Principles of pragmatics.

Dillon, George L., Linda Coleman, Jeanne Fahnestock and Michael Agar. 1985. Review of G. Brown, G. Yule (1983: `Discourse analysis'), G.N. Leech 91983: `Principles of pragmatics'), S.C. Levinson (1983: `Pragmatics').

Verschueren, Jef. 1985. Review of G.N.Leech (1983: `Principles of pragmatics'), S.C.Levinson (1983: `Pragmatics').