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Article: Relational pragmatics: towards a holistic view of pragmatic phenomena.
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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- January 1, 1998
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper
1. Introduction
The situation in theoretical pragmatics is a peculiar one: first there is the Chomsky -- Kasher cognitivist research program (cf. Sinclair 1995) that concentrates on a narrow view of pragmatic competence as conditions on the use of language; second, Leech (1983) and Sperber and Wilson (1986) propose a performance-oriented pragmatics; and finally, there are the majority of the pragmaticians who are simply "doing pragmatics" with few or no theoretical commitments whatsoever (cf. Levinson 1983).
This paper is intended to provide a ...