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Hardcover Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics Book

ISBN: 311078758X

ISBN13: 9783110787580

Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics

With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that...

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