Doing Pragmatics

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Doing Pragmatics remains popular through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive andengaging style which characterized the previous edition, the third editions is fully revised and expanded. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original book, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real-world data and fascinating examples which are insightfully analysed. New chapters include pragmatic inference and language evolution, and intercultural pragmatics. Each chapter opens with an introductory section followed by a discussion of theory and an analysis of examples of naturally occurring data, and concludes with a section exploring problematic issues. Checking understanding boxes appear throughout the chapters allowing students to monitor their progress as they work through the book. All chapters conclude with activities designed to raise pragmatic awareness, suggestions for further reading and, new to this edition, discussion topics and essay titles. Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to ‘do’ pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those studying language, linguistics and ELT.

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Peter Grundy is a Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University and a former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Durham. Table of Contents    Using and understanding language     Deixis: the relation of reference to the point of origin of the utterance     Presupposition - accommodating background knowledge     Speech acts: language as action     Implicit meaning     Relevance Theory     Meta pragmatic awareness     Pragmatic inference and language evolution     Politeness phenomena     Empirical pragmatics, interactive pragmatics, talk-in-interaction     Inter cultural pragmatics     Doing project work in pragmatics