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• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Notation conventions
• 1 The scope of pragmatics
• 1.1 The origin and historical vagaries of the term pragmatics
• 1.2 Defining pragmatics
• 1.3 Current interest in pragmatics
• 1.4 Computing context: an example
• 2 Deixis
• 2.0 Introduction
• 2.1 Philosophical approaches
• 2.2 Descriptive approaches
• 2.2.1 Person deixis
• 2.2.2 Time deixis
• 2.2.3 Place deixis
• 2.2.4 Discourse deixis
• 2.2.5 Social deixis
• 2.3 Conclusions
• 3 Conversational implicature
• 3.0 Introduction
• 3.1 Grice’s theory of implicature
• 3.2 Revisions, problems and applications
• 3.2.1 Tests for implicature
• 3.2.2 Implicature and logical form
• 3.2.3 Kinds of implicature
• 3.2.4 Generalized Quantity implicatures
• 3.2.5 Metaphor: a case of maxim exploitation
• 3.2.6 Implicature and language structure
• 4 Presupposition
• 4.0 Introduction
• 4.1 Historical background
• 4.2 The phenomena: initial observations
• 4.3 The problematic properties
• 4.3.1 Defeasibility
• 4.3.2 The projection problem
• 4.4 Kinds of explanation
• 4.4.1 Semantic presupposition
• 4.4.2 Pragmatic theories of presupposition
• 4.5 Conclusions
• 5 Speech acts
• 5.0 Introduction
• 5.1 Philosophical background
• 5.2 Thesis: speech acts are irreducible to matters of truth and falsity
• 5.3 Antithesis: the reduction of illocutionary force to ordinary syntax and semantics
• 5.4 Collapse of Antithesis
• 5.4.1 Semantic problems
• 5.4.2 Syntactic problems
• 5.5 Indirect speech acts: a problem for Thesis and Antithesis
• 5.6 The context-change theory of speech acts
• 5.7 Beyond theories of speech acts
• 6 Conversational structure
• 6.0 Introduction
• 6.1 Discourse analysis versus conversation analysis
• 6.2 Conversation analysis
• 6.2.1 Some basic findings
• 6.2.1.1 Turn-taking
• 6.2.1.2 Adjacency pairs
• 6.2.1.3 Overall organization
• 6.2.2 Some remarks on methodology
• 6.2.3 Some applications
• 6.3 Preference organization
• 6.3.1 Preferred second turns
• 6.3.2 Preferred sequences
• 6.4 Pre-sequences
• 6.4.1 General remarks
• 6.4.2 Pre-announcements
• 6.4.3 Pre-requests: a re-analysis of indirect speech acts
• 6.5 Conclusions
• 6.5.1 Conversation analysis and linguistics
• 6.5.2 Some remaining questions
• Appendix: transcription conventions
• 7 Conclusions
• 7.0 Introduction
• 7.1 Pragmatics and ‘core’ linguistics
• 7.2 Pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
• 7.3 Applied pragmatics: pragmatics and other fields
• Bibliography
• Subject index
• Index of names