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This is the landing page for everything Pragmatics. It has links to the books and articles by well established workers on established theories and new research.

1. Pragmatics (Wikipedia)

2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

   1. Pragmatics

   2. Speech Acts

   3. Theories of Meaning

3. Pragmatics in Linguistics: Definition and Examplesbetween - the 3 examples summarize the subject of Pragmatics beautifully.

4. Connectives and Discourse Relations - "comparisons between connectives expressing a similar relation have shown that most of the time, exact translation equivalents do

   not exist, because of frequent semantic, syntactic and register differences between them", p. 142. I experienced difficultиес translating the Conjunctions in Eastern Armenian into English. For accurate translations of the Conjunctions in Eastern Armenian we need to create a catalog of possible meanings based on the research similar to the LEXCONN: A French Lexicon of Discourse Connectives.

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