Download or read book Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics written by Herman Parret and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle's seminal Speech Acts. This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united by the possibilities and limitations generic to the field of pragmatics.