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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 1686–1694

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Linguistic explanation

Published online: 3 October 2022
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Explanations, theories, and some basic metascience
  • 3.From discovery to argument
  • 4.Linguistic explanation and pragmatic explanation
    • 4.1Formal linguistics and the privileged view
    • 4.2Pragmatics and functional explanations
    • 4.3The explanatory history of communicative competence
    • 4.4Some examples of pragmatic explanation
  • Notes
  • References
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