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	Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics) Yan Huang Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA Yan Huang provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the central topics in pragmatics--implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and deixis. He also includes three 'interface' chapters on pragmatics and cognition (including relevance... continue >>

	Anaphora: A Cross-linguistic Study (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) Yan Huang Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press, USA Understanding any communication depends on the listener or reader recognizing that some words refer to what has already been said or written (his, its, he, there, etc.). This mode of reference, anaphora, involves complicated cognitive and syntactic... continue >>

	The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora: A Study with Special Reference to Chinese (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Yan Huang Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press This book develops a pragmatic theory of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature. Chomsky claims that anaphora reflects underlying principles of innate Universal Grammar, and the view is widely held that only... continue >>

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