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1 What is pragmatics? 2 Speech acts 3 Conversational implicature 4 Approaches to pragmatics 5 Pragmatics and indirectness 6 Theories of politeness 7 The construction of meaning.
Comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics, its aims and methodology, and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts. Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both…