Pragmatics and the English Language by Culpeper, Jonathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Title Copyright Contents List of Tables List of Figures Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions 1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction 1.2 Meanings in context 1.2.1 Beyond the linguistic code 1.2.2 The scope of pragmatics 1.3 The pragmatics of English 1.4 This book

2 Referential Pragmatics

2.1 Introduction 2.2 Defi nite expressions 2.3 Deixis 2.4 Anaphora 2.5 Using and understanding referring expressions in interaction 2.5.1 Referring expressions and context 2.5.2 Referring expressions and accessibility 2.5.3 Referring expressions and common ground 2.5.4 Referring expressions in interaction 2.6 Conclusion

3 Informational Pragmatics

3.1 Informational pragmatics 3.2 Informational ground: background and foreground 3.3 Informational background 3.3.1 Background assumptions 3.3.2 Presuppositions 3.4 Informational foreground 3.4.1 Foregrounding 3.4.2 Focus 3.5 Informational pragmatics: an interactional perspective 3.5.1 Presuppositions and backgrounding 3.5.2 Common grounding 3.6 Conclusion

4 Pragmatic Meaning I

4.1 Meaning beyond what is said 4.2 What is said versus what is implicated 4.2.1 Grice on speaker meaning 4.2.2 Implicated meaning 4.3 Between what is said and what is implicated 4.3.1 Literalist approaches: the neo-Griceans 4.3.2 Contextualist approaches: relevance theory 4.4 An interim conclusion: on pragmatic meaning representations

5 Pragmatic Meaning II

5.1 Analysing pragmatic meaning 5.2 Whose meaning? 5.2.1 Participant footings 5.2.2 Recipient meanings 5.3 Understanding meaning 5.3.1 Utterance processing 5.3.2 Discourse processing 5.3.3 Two types of pragmatic meaning? 5.4 Meaning in interactional contexts 5.4.1 Pragmatic meaning and accountability 5.4.2 Pragmatic meaning and meaning-actions 5.5 Conclusion

6 Pragmatic Acts

6.1 Introduction 6.2 Traditional speech act theory 6.2.1 Doing thing with words: J. L. Austin 6.2.2 Developing speech act theory: Searle 6.3 Directness/indirectness; explicitness/implicitness 6.4 Speech acts in socio-cultural contexts 6.5 Pragmatic acts and schema theory 6.6 Pragmatic acts in interaction 6.6.1 Pragmatic acts in sequence 6.6.2 The co-construction of pragmatic acts 6.6.3 Pragmatic acts and activity types 6.7 Conclusion

7 Interpersonal Pragmatics

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Two general approaches to politeness 7.2.1 The socio-cultural view of politeness 7.2.2 The pragmatic view of politeness 7.3 The two classic pragmatic politeness theories 7.3.1 The conversational-maxim view: Lakoff (1973) and Leech (1983) 7.3.2 The face-saving view: Brown and Levinson (1987) 7.4 Recent developments 7.4.1 Discursive 7.4.2 Relational 7.4.3 Frame-based 7.5 Impoliteness 7.6 The interactional approach to politeness 7.7 Conclusion

8 Metapragmatics

8.1 Introduction 8.2 Metapragmatics and refl exivity 8.3 Forms of metapragmatic awareness 8.3.1 Metacognitive awareness 8.3.2 Metarepresentational awareness 8.3.3 Metacommunicative awareness 8.4 Metapragmatics in use 8.5 Conclusion

9 Conclusion

9.1 Pragmatics as language in use 9.2 Integrative pragmatics 9.2.1 First-order and second-order perspectives on pragmatics 9.2.2 Methods in pragmatics 9.3 The pragmatics of Englishes

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