Pragmatics: The Basics

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Very Basics
	Communicating and Understanding
	What Pragmatics Aims to Explain
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 2 Meaning More Than We Say: Grice’s Suggestion
	Rationality and Meaning
	Types of Meaning
	Principles and Maxims
	Saying and Implicating
	Types of Implicature
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 3 Adjusting The Maxims: Neo-Gricean Pragmatics
	Developing Grice’s Approach
	Horn’s Two Principles
	Levinson’s Three Principles
	Leech’s Approach
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 4 Principles and Heuristics: Relevance Theory
	A Generalisation about Communication
	Defining Relevance: Effects and Effort
	Two Principles and a Heuristic
	Explicatures and Implicatures
	Limiting Interpretations
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 5 Managing Interaction: (Im)politeness
	Being (Im)polite in Verbal Interactions
	Early Approaches: Lakoff, Leech, Brown and Levinson
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 6 What Words Can Do: Speech Acts
	Doing Things with Words
	Types of Speech Acts
	Properties of Speech Acts
	Speech Acts, Semantics, and Pragmatics
	Applying Speech Act Theory
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 7 Beyond Words: Prosody
	Prosodic Forms
	What Do Prosodic Forms Mean?
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 8 Beyond Words: Nonverbal and Multimodal Communication
	Nonverbal Communication
	Multimodal Communication
	Finding Out More
	Further Reading
Chapter 9 The Future: Developing Pragmatic Theories
	Where Pragmatics Has Gone
	Where Pragmatics Might Go
	Finding Out More
Glossary
References
Index