Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521351645)

This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive capacity of natural language, its ability to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language use (metapragmatics). Included are theoretical overviews, case studies of the forms and functioning of reflexive language, and explorations of the broad importance of reflexive language for research in the humanities and social sciences. These innovative essays, many by internationally known researchers, effectively critique research in the human disciplines that fails to take language seriously. It should elicit widespread attention and debate.

Author: John A. Lucy
ISBN-10: 0521351642
ISBN-13: 9780521351645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/04/1993
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d