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Publication details [#9424]

Thomason, Richmond H. 1977. Where pragmatics fits in. In Rogers, Andy, Bob Wall and John P. Murphy, eds. Proceedings of the Texas conference on performatives, presuppositions and implicatures. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 161–166.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | pragmatic theory | presupposition | topic

Annotation

An attempt to describe the conditions that a theory of pragmatics should meet. (For one thing, though phenomena like presupposition and topic are discussed, T. proposes that a theory of pragmatics should concentrate on implicature.)