Juergen Bohnemeyer

The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of social/behavioural science. Designed for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practising researchers, it responds to the growing requirement that, rather than relying on their own native speaker intuitions, students gather and...

The first of its kind, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of semantics and pragmatics from an interactionist perspective, grounded entirely on empirical methods of social/behavioural science. Designed for advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practising researchers, it responds to the growing requirement that, rather than relying on their own native speaker intuitions, students gather and...