Pragmatics Book Review by Yan Huang

2 Reasons Why You Need to Buy  Yan's Pragmatics Book

There are two reasons why we recommend that we use the book on Pragmatics Book written by Yan Huang. Yan Huang writes it with a smooth style  and it is not packed too tight with technical information  making it a pleasant textbook to work with, yet it informs you very well.   There are three chapters on the interface between pragmatics and the cognitive, semantic, and syntax side of linguistics, a real plus. This book does not have a long drawn out cryptic  introduction. The excercises given at the end of each chapter are not too hard, not too easy to do and appear to be well thought out. So it  is highly recommended that we give it a 5 star rating although there is an incorrect statement on page 102-103, where an illocutionary force of a speech act is made out to be the same as the illocutionary point. There is an important and fundamental distinction between them as pointed out by Searle (a founder of speech act theory) and Daniel Vanderveken.