TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moeschler,Jacques
TI  - Why Language?: What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication 
T2  - Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ,
SN  - 9783110723328
AV  - P99.4.P72 M64 2021
U1  - 306.44 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Generative Grammatik
KW  - Kognitive Linguistik
KW  - Relevanztheorie
KW  - Sprachevolution
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Evolution of Language
KW  - Relevance Theory
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Caveats --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: Language and communication --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Eight commonplace assumptions about language --; Chapter 2 Why is language not communication, and why is communication not language? --; Chapter 3 Language structure and usage --; Part II: Language, society, and discourse --; Introduction --; Chapter 4 The social dimension of language --; Chapter 5 Language and discourse --; Chapter 6 Ordinary and non-ordinary usages of language --; Chapter 7 Superpragmatics --; Conclusion: What we do and still do not know about language --; Afterword --; Glossary --; References --; Name index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why Language? addresses many questions that everyone has about language. Starting from false claims about language and languages, showing that language is not communication and communication is not language, the first part (Language and Communication) ends by proposing a difference between linguistic rules and communicative principles. The second part (Language, Society, Discourse) includes domains of language and language uses which are generally taken as extrinsic to language, such as language variety, discourse and non-ordinary (literary) usages. Special attention is given to figures of discourse (metaphor, metonymy, irony) and literary usages such as narration and free indirect style. The reader, either specialist or amateur in language science, will find a first and unique synthesis about what we know today about language and what we have yet to learn, sketching what could be the future of linguistics in the next decades
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110723380
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110723380
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110723380/original
ER  -