Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Types ofpragmatics
1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics
1.3 Structure of the book
2 Semantics and Pragmatics
2.1 The borderline
2.2 Sentences and utterances
2.3 Language and logic
2.4 Mood
2.5 The explicit and the implicit
2.6 Presupposition
2.7 Deixis
3 History of Pragmatics
3.1 Structuralism
3.2 Logical positivism
3.3 Ordinary language philosophy
3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics
4 'Classical' Pragmatics
4.1 Speech act theory
4.2 Implicature
5 Modern Pragmatics
5.1 Neo-Gricean pragmatics
5.2 Relevance theory
5.3 Semantic autonomy and pragmatic intrusion
6 Applications of Pragmatics
6.1 Politeness
6.2 Literature
6.3 Language acquisition
6.4 Clinical linguistics
6.5 Experimental pragmatics
7 Pragmatics and Language in Context
7.1 Conversation analysis
7.2 Discourse analysis
7.3 Sociolinguistics
7.4 Corpus linguistics
Glossary
Bibliography
Index