Key areas of research include lexical semantics, grammatical semantics, phraseology and pragmatics, as well as cross-cultural communication.
en.wikipedia.org Her research spans over cross-linguistic studies of child language acquisition, speech and language discorders of young children, pragmatics and intercultural communication.
en.wikipedia.org As part of the field of cognitive linguistics, the cognitive semantics approach rejects the traditional separation of linguistics into phonology, syntax, pragmatics, etc.
en.wikipedia.org His work in pragmatics, in particular his innovation in the theory of scalar implicature, is widely influential.
en.wikipedia.org In the last two decades, he has become an important personality in linguistic pragmatics for his pioneering works on humor and narrative in conversational interaction.
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