Pragmatics

by Yule, George; Widdowson, H. G.

• ISBN13: 9780194372077
• ISBN10: 0194372073
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
SECTION 1: Survey	1	(90)
Definitions and background	3	(6)
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics	4	(1)
Regularity	4	(2)
The pragmatics wastebasket	6	(3)
Deixis and distance	9	(8)
Person deixis	10	(2)
Spatial deixis	12	(2)
Temporal deixis	14	(1)
Deixis and grammar	15	(2)
Reference and inference	17	(8)
Referential and attributive uses	18	(1)
Names and referents	19	(2)
The role of co-text	21	(1)
Anaphoric reference	22	(3)
Presupposition and entailment	25	(10)
Presupposition	26	(1)
Types of presupposition	27	(3)
The projection problem	30	(3)
Ordered entailments	33	(2)
Cooperation and implicature	35	(12)
The cooperative principle	36	(2)
Hedges	38	(2)
Conversational implicature	40	(1)
Generalized conversational implicatures	40	(1)
Scalar implicatures	41	(1)
Particularized conversational implicatures	42	(2)
Properties of conversational implicatures	44	(1)
Conventional implicatures	45	(2)
Speech acts and events	47	(12)
Speech acts	48	(1)
IFIDs	49	(1)
Felicity conditions	50	(1)
The performative hypothesis	51	(2)
Speech act classification	53	(1)
Direct and indirect speech acts	54	(2)
Speech events	56	(3)
Politeness and interaction	59	(12)
Politeness	60	(1)
Face wants	61	(1)
Negative and positive face	61	(1)
Self and other: say nothing	62	(1)
Say something: off and on record	63	(1)
Positive and negative politeness	64	(1)
Strategies	65	(2)
Pre-sequences	67	(4)
Conversation and preference structure	71	(12)
Conversation analysis	71	(1)
Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels	72	(4)
Conversational style	76	(1)
Adjacency pairs	76	(2)
Preference structure	78	(5)
Discourse and culture	83	(8)
Discourse analysis	83	(1)
Coherence	84	(1)
Background knowledge	85	(2)
Cultural schemata	87	(1)
Cross-cultural pragmatics	87	(4)
SECTION 2 Readings	91	(26)
SECTION 3 References	117	(10)
SECTION 4 Glossary	127