Pragmatics
George Yule
Contents
Preface
SECTION i:
Survey
1 Definitions and background
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics Regularity
The pragmatics wastebasket
2 Deixis and distance
Person deixis Spatial deixis Temporal deixis Deixis and grammar
3 Reference and inference
Referential and attributive uses Names and referents The role of co-text Anaphoric reference
4 Presupposition and entailment
Presupposition Types of presupposition The projection problem Ordered entailments
5 Cooperation and implicature
The cooperative principle Hedges
Conversational implicative Generalized conversational implicatures Scalar implicatures
Particularized conversational implicatures Properties of conversational implicatures Conventional implicatures
6 Speech acts and events
Speech acts IFIDs
Felicity conditions The performative hypothesis Speech act classification Direct and indirect speech acts Speech events
7 Politeness and interaction
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
8 Conversation and preference structure
Conversation analysis
Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels
Conversational style
Adjacency pairs
Preference structure
9 Discourse and culture
Discourse analysis Coherence
Background knowledge Cultural schemata Cross-cultural pragmatics
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SECTION 2
Readings
SECTION 3
References
SECTION 4 Glossary