自序
Preface
Part 1 General Understanding
Chapter 1 Defining pragmatics
1.1 Pragmatics
1.2 Context
1.3 Some important distinctions
1.3.1 Semantics and pragmatics
1.3.2 Logic and pragmatics
1.3.3 Sociolinguistics and pragrnatics
1.3.4 Sentence, utterance, and proposition
1.4 Summary
1.5 Recommendation for reading
1.6 Exercises
Part 2 Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 2 Deixis
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Definition and features
2.3 Classification
2.3.1 Person deixis
2.3.2 Time deixis
2.3.3 Place deixis
2.3.4 Discourse deixis
2.3.5 Social deixis
2, 4 Deictic and non-deictie usages
2.5 New horizons in the studies of deixis
2.6 Summary
2.7 Recommendation for reading
2.8 Exercises
Chapter 3 Conversational implicature
3.1 Philosophical background
3.2 Classes of implieature
3.2.1 Conventional implicature
3.2.2 Conversational implicature
3.3 Inference of conversational implicature
3.3.1 Cooperative principle
3.3.2 Cases of CP non-observance
3.4 Features of conversational implicature
3.4.1 Cancellability
3.4.2 Nondetachability
3.4.3 Calculability
3.4.4 Nonconventionality
3.4.5 Indeterminacy
3.5 Modification on theory of conversational implicature:
Neo-Griceanism
3.5. 1 Horn''s Q- and R- principles
3.5.1.1 Purpose and rationale
3.5.1.2 The principles
3.5.1.3 Division of pragmatic labor
3.5.2 Levinson''s Q-, I-, and M-principles
3.5.2.1 Purpose and the principles
3.5.2.2 Order of interpreting implicatures
3.5.3 Difference between entailment, Q- and I- implicature
3.6 Further studies on theory of conversational implieature
3.6.1 On Griceanism
3.6.2 On neo-Grieeanisrn
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Chapter 4 Presupposition
Chapter 5 Speech acts
Part 3 Interdisciplinary Branches
Chapter 6 Linguistic politeness
Chapter 7 Crosscultural pragmatics
Chapter 8 Interlanguage pramatics
Chapter 9 Cognitive pragmatics
Chapter 10 Pragmatics in translation
Chapter 11 Adaptation Theory and Memetic Theory
Chapter 12 Societal pragmatics,literary pramatics and forensic pragmatics
Chapter 13 Universal pragmatics and neuropragmatics
Part 4 Empirical research methodology in pragmatics
Chapter 14 General understanding of empirical research
Chapter 15 Pragmatic instruments and their validation
Postface
Bibliography