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Author Grundy, Peter.

Title Doing pragmatics / Peter Grundy
Edition Second edition
Published London : Arnold, 2000

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 MELB  401.01 Gru/Dpr 2000  AVAILABLE
Description x, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Using and understanding language -- 2. Deixis: the relation of reference to the point of origin of the utterance -- 2.1. Deictic reference -- 2.2. Deixis in the real world -- 2.3. The limits of indexicality -- 3. Speech acts: language as action -- 3.1. Language as a representation of intention -- 3.2. Literal meaning and indirect speech acts -- 4. Implicit meaning: Grice's theory of conversational implicature -- 4.1. Entailment and implicature -- 4.2. Types and tokens -- 5. Implicit meaning: Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory -- 5.1. Determining relevance -- 5.2. Relevance theory and degrees of understanding -- 5.3. Why implicature? -- 6. Presupposition -- 6.1. Presuppositions as shared assumptions -- 6.2. Presuppositions as pragmatically conditioned -- 6.3. Presupposition in the real world -- 7. Politeness -- 7.1. Politeness phenomena -- 7.2. The effects of politeness -- 7.3. Brown and Levinson's model of politeness strategies -- 8. Speech events -- 8.1. The role of utterances in speech events -- 8.2. Conversations as speech events -- 9. Talk -- 9.1. Pragmatics and conversation -- 9.2. Members' methods -- 9.3. Talk and context -- 9.4. A post-methodic afterword -- 10. Reflexive language: metapragmatic and metasequential encoding -- 10.1. Meta-functions -- 10.2. The place of pragmatics in a theory of language -- 11. Doing project work in pragmatics -- 11.1. The nature of pragmatic investigation -- 11.2. Collecting data -- 11.3. Transcription conventions -- 11.4. Investigable topics -- 11.5. Learning by doing
Summary "Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between language and context, the book introduces the major areas of linguistic pragmatics - deixis, speech acts, Grice's theory of conversational implicature, relevance theory and presupposition - before expanding into the wider areas of speech events, politeness phenomena, conversation and metapragmatics. Each explanation is counterbalanced with the close examination of 'live' data, taken from a variety of sources, which serves to lighten the theory and to emphasize the 'how to' application of pragmatics. Exercises are included at regular intervals throughout chapters to help confirm understanding and encourage practice of the principles learnt. Solutions and suggested answers to the exercises can be found at the back of book." "Doing Pragmatics provides students of linguistics and related disciplines with a solid foundation in the subject."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Previous ed.: 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Pragmatics.
ISBN 0340758929 (paperback)