Pragmatics and Grammar

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Pragmatics and Grammar is written by Mira Ariel and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521559944 (ISBN 10) and 9780521559942 (ISBN 13).

When using language, many aspects of our messages are left implicit in what we say. While grammar is responsible for what we express explicitly, pragmatics explains how we infer additional meanings. The problem is that it is not always a trivial matter to decide which of the meanings conveyed is explicit (grammatical) and which implicit (pragmatic). Pragmatics and Grammar lays out a methodology for students and scholars to distinguish between the two. It explains how and why grammar and pragmatics combine together in natural discourse, and how pragmatic uses become grammatical in time.