Understanding Pragmatics (Understanding Language)

Cover\nUnderstanding Pragmatics\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nList of abbreviations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n1 Pragmatics and philosophy: What we do when we speak and what we actually mean – speech act theory and the theory of conversational implicature\n	1.1 Introduction\n	1.2 John Austin’s speech act theory\n	1.3 John Searle’s speech act theory\n	1.4 Pieter Seuren on the socially binding force of speech acts\n	1.5 Maxims that guide conversation: H. Paul Grice’s theory of conversational implicature\n	1.6 Concluding remarks\n	1.7 Exercise/work section\n	1.8 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n2 Pragmatics and psychology: Deictic reference and gesture\n	2.1 Introduction\n	2.2 Deictic reference\n	2.3 Spatial deixis\n	2.4 Gesture\n	2.5 Concluding remarks\n	2.6 Exercise/work section\n	2.7 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n3 Pragmatics and human ethology: Biological foundations of communicative behaviour\n	3.1 Introduction\n	3.2 Expressive movements and their ritualization into signals\n	3.3 Rituals, ritual communication and interaction strategies\n	3.4 Concluding remarks\n	3.5 Exercise/work section\n	3.6 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n4 Pragmatics and ethnology: The interface of language, culture and cognition\n	4.1 Introduction\n	4.2 Phatic communion\n	4.3 Linguistic relativity: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis\n	4.4 The ethnography of speaking\n	4.5 Concluding remarks\n	4.6 Exercise/work section\n	4.7 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n5 Pragmatics and sociology: Everyday social interaction\n	5.1 Introduction\n	5.2 Erving Goffman’s interaction order\n	5.3 Harold Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology\n	5.4 Harvey Sacks and Conversation Analysis\n	5.5 Concluding remarks\n	5.6 Exercise/work section\n	5.7 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n6 Pragmatics and politics: Language, social class, ethnicity and education and linguistic ideologies\n	6.1 Introduction\n	6.2 Basil Bernstein’s code theory\n	6.3 William Labov and the variability concept\n	6.4 Language ideologies\n	6.5 Concluding remarks\n	6.6 Exercise/work section\n	6.7 Suggestions for further reading\n	Notes\n7 Understanding pragmatics: Summary and outlook\n	7.1 Introduction\n	7.2 Summary\n	7.3 A brief outlook on future developments within the discipline: Emancipatory pragmatics\n	Note\nReferences\nIndex