Pragmatics »

This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation conventions;

1. The scope of pragmatics;
2. Deixis;
3. Conversational implicature;
4. Presupposition;
5. Speech acts;
6. Conversational structure;
7. Conclusions; Bibliography; Subject index; Index of names.