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Pragmatics is no longer just a subject of philosophical enquiry and is now firmly established as the investigation of the real world of everyday language use in all its variety and media of communication. This book gives the most up-to-date introduction to a fast-moving field.
Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University.
Table of Contents
Contents cross-referenced
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Introduction: concepts in pragmatics
1 Context and structure
2 Speech act theory
3 Cooperative principle
4 Politeness and impoliteness
5 Corpora and communities
6 Critical discourse analysis
7 Intercultural pragmatics
8 Pragmatics and language learning
B Development: studies in pragmatics
1 Analysing context
2 Using speech acts
3 Understanding implicature
4 Analysing politeness and impoliteness
5 Analysing markers
6 Detecting hidden values
7 Studying intercultural pragmatics
8 Teaching pragmatics
C Exploration: data for investigation
1 Contexts in writing
2 Culture and indirectness
3 Flouting and violating
4 Politeness and impoliteness
5 Variation and multimodal corpora
6 Language and power
7 Understanding each other
8 Pragmatics online and learning
D Extension: readings
1 Conversation analysis and ELF (Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger)
2 Speech acts and conversation analysis (J. César Félix-Brasdefer)
3 Relevance and emotion (Baiyao Zuo and Wen Yuana, Francis Y. Lin, and Richard P. Cooper)
4 Impoliteness and rudeness (Jonathan Culpeper)
5 Corpora and language teaching (Lynne Flowerdew)
6 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (Steve Buckledee and David Machin)
7 African face needs (Karen Grainger, Sara Mills, and Mandla Sibanda)
8 Pragmatic development, ELF, and TBLT (Neil Murray and Marta González-Lloret)
References
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