Brigitte Nerlich
2 Publications
Language, action, and context
Brigitte NerlichDavid Clarke
Benjamins - Amsterdam
1996
The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration.
2 Publications