目录 Preface PART Ⅰ: Basic Notions 1 Defining Pragmatics 1.1 Preliminaries 1.1.1 A look at history 1.1.2 The importance of being a user 1.2 Pragmatics: Definition and Delimitation 1.2.1 A definition 1.2.2 Component, perspective or function? 1.2.2.1 Component vs. perspective 1.2.2.2 Function 1.3 What Use is Pragmatics? 1.3.1 Theory and practice 1.3.2 Uses and aims 1.3.2.1 Why do we need pragmatics? 1.3.2.2 The aims of pragmatics 2 Some Issues in Pragmatics 2.1 The Pragmatic Waste-basket 2.2 Linguists Without Borders 2.3 Philosophers, Ordinary People and Ordinary Language 2.4 Of Cats and Ducks 2.5 Linguistics and Reality: Presupposition 2.6 A World of Users PART Ⅱ: Micropragmatics 3 Context, Implicature and Reference 3.1 Context 3.1.1 The dynamic context 3.1.2 Context and convention 3.2 Implicature 3.2.1 What is an implicature? 3.2.2 Implications and implicatures 3.2.3 Conversational implicature 3.2.4 Conventional implicature 3.3 Reference and Anaphora 3.3.1 On referring 3.3.2 Reference, indexicals and deictics 3.3.3 From deixis to anaphora 4 Pragmatic Principles 4.1 Principles and Rules 4.2 Some Principles Discussed 4.2.1 The Communicative Principle 4.2.2 The Cooperative Principle 4.2.2.1 Dostoyevski and the rubber ball 4.2.2.2 Cooperation and ‘face’ 4.2.2.3 Cooperation and ‘flouting’ 4.2.3 Politeness and other virtues 4.3 Rethinking Grice 4.3.1 Horn's two principles 4.3.2 Relevance and 'conspicuity' 5 Speech Acts
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