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Zusatztext 'The strength of this book lies in the conciseness of the description of each separate area.' Klappentext This book outlines pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. Basic concepts such as the cooperative principle, deixis, and speech acts are explained and illustrated, providing readers with an ideal foundation for further study. Zusammenfassung This is an introduction to pragmatics! the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains! and illustrates! basic concepts such as the co-operative principle! deixis! and speech acts! providing a clear! concise foundation for further study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ; SECTION 1 ; Survey ; Syntax! semantics! and pragmatics ; Regularity ; The pragmatics wastebasket ; Person deixis ; Spatial deixis ; Temporal deixis ; Deixis and grammar ; Referential and attributive uses ; Names and referents ; The role of co-text ; Anaphoric reference ; Presupposition ; Types of presupposition ; The projection problem ; Ordered entailments ; The cooperative principle ; Hedges ; Conversational implicature ; Generalized conversational implicatures ; Scalar implicatures ; Particularized conversational implicatures ; Properties of conversational implicatures ; Conventional implicatures ; Speech acts ; IFIDs ; Felicity conditions ; The performative hypothesis ; Speech act classification ; Direct and indirect speech acts ; Speech events ; Politeness ; Face wants ; Negative and positive face ; Self and other: say nothing ; Say something: off and on record ; Positive and negative politeness ; Strategies ; Pre-sequences ; Conversation analysis ; Pauses! overlaps! and backchannels ; Conversational style ; Adjacency pairs ; Preference structure ; Discourse analysis ; Coherence ; Background knowledge ; Cultural schemata ; Cross-cultural pragmatics ; SECTION 2 ; Readings ; SECTION 3 ; References ; SECTION 4 ; Glossary ...