Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
导读
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
0.1 Linguistics of language resources: components of a linguistic theory
0.2 Linguistics of language use: the pragmatic perspective
0.3 Pragmatics and interdisciplinarity
0.4 Meaningful functioning of language
0.5 An infinite task
0.6 Summary and further reading
0.7 Preview
Part I The pragmatic perspective
Introduction
1 Language and language use
1.1 Common topics in pragmatics
1.1.1 Deixis
1.1.2 Speech acts
1.1.3 Implicit meaning
The impossibility of complete explicitness
Conventional means for conveying implicit meaning
Strategic avoidance of explicitness
1.1.4 Conversation
1.2 What the common topics have in common
1.3 The problem of intentionality
1.4 Genres of language use
1.5 Summary and further reading
1.6 Research topics
2 Key notions
2.1 Making choices
2.2 Variability, negotiability and adaptability
2.3 Adaptability and universality
2.4 Four angles of investigation
2.5 Summary and further reading
2.6 Research topics
Part II Aspects of the meaningful functioning of language
Introduction
3 Context
3.1 The general picture
3.2 Ingredients of the communicative context
3.2.1 Language users: utterer and interpreter
The utterer''s many voices
The interpreter''s many roles
When utterer becomes interpreter
The influence of numbers
3.2.2 The mental world
3.2.3 The social world
3.2.4 The physical world
Temporal reference
Spatial reference
Utterer and interpreter in the physical world
''Material'' conditions of speech
3.3 Linguistic channel and linguistic context
3.3.1 Linguistic channel
3.3.2 Linguistic context
Contextual cohesion
Intertextuality
Sequencing
3.4 The generation of context
3.4.1 Lines of vision
3.4.2 The manipulation of contexts
3.4.3 Contextualization
3.5 Summary and further reading
3.6 Research topic
4 Structure
4.1 Languages, codes and styles
4.2 Utterance-building ingredients
4.2.1 Sound structure
4.2.2 Morphemes and words
4.2.3 Clauses and sentences
4.2.4 Propositions
4.2.5 Suprasententiat units
4.3 Utterances and utterance clusters
4.4 Utterance-building principles
4.4.1 Sentential utterance building
4.4.2 Suprasentential utterance building
4.4.3 Building utterance clusters
4.5 Integrated choice-making
4.6 Summary and further reading
4.7 Research topic
5 Dynamics
5.1 ''Locating'' the dynamics of communication
5.1.1 The temporal dimension
5.1.2 Dynamics and context
5.1.3 Dynamics and structure
5.2 Activities, events and frames of meaning
5.3 Strategies of meaning generation
5.4 The dynamics of interactive meaning generation
5.4.1 The Budapest opera
5.4.2 The Berkeley coffee shop
5.4.3 From Brussels to Frankfurt
5.4.4 From Bellagio to Linate
5.5 Summary and further reading
5.6 Research topics
6 Salience
6.1 Mind in society
6.2 Perception and representation, planning, memory
6.2.1 Perception and representation
6.2.2 Planning
6.2.3 Memory
6.3 Degrees of salience
6.4 Metapragmatic awareness
6.4.1 Indicators of metapragmatic awareness
6.4.2 Metapragmatics and the nature of linguistic action
Concepts, practices and language ideologies
Self-monitoring
6.5 Summary and further reading
6.6 Research topic
Part III Topics and trends
Inroduction
7 Micropragmatic issues
7.1 Language resources in need of a pragmatic perspective
7.1.1 The ordering of particles
7.1.2 The problem of performativity
7.2 The pragmatics of small-scale interaction
7.2.1 An informal exchange
7.2.2 An institutional event
7.3 Summary and further reading
7.4 Research topic
8 Macropragmafic issues
8.1 A pragmatic perspective on language resources at the
macro-level
8.2 Macro-processes in language use
8.2.1 Intercultural and international communication
Rocks - just layin'' around
Who exploded that land mine under the conference
8.2.2 Discourse and ideology
8.2.3 The pragmatics of wide societal debates
8.3 Summary and further reading
8.4 Research topics
9 The pragmatic landscape
9.1 Formative traditions
9.2 The problem of delimitation
9.3 Precursors and parallels to pragmatics as a theory of linguistic adaptability
9.4 Interdisciplinarity revisited
9.5 Further reading
Bibliography
Index
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