Contents

Preface xx

PART I: Basic Notions 1

1 Defining Pragmatics 3

2 Some Issues in Pragmatics 19

PART II: Micropragmatics 37

3 Context, Implicature and Reference 39

4 Pragmatic Principles 67

5 Speech Acts 92

6 Conversation Analysis 134

PART III: Macropragmatics 171

7 Metapragmatics 173

8 Pragmatic Acts 206

9 Literary Pragmatics 236

10 Pragmatics Across Cultures 262

11 Social Aspects of Pragmatics 289

Epilogue: Of Silence and Comets 329

Notes 333

References 348

Subject Index 363

Name Index 386