Pragmatics [Paperback]

In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics:

• encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences
• provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts
• introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory
• encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations
• provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.

1. What is pragmatics  2. Entailment  3. Presupposition  4. The co-operative principle and implicature  5. More on implicatures  6. Speech acts  7. More about speech acts  8. Politeness  9. Making sense  10. Exploring pragmatics: projectsJean Stilwell Peccei is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting lecturer at the Roehampton Institute London