Yan Huang. Pragmatics

Second Edition. — Oxford Uinversity Press, 2014. — 440 p.Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have also been updated to include new material on upward and downward entailment, current debates about conversational implicature, impoliteness, emotional deixis, contextualism versus semantic minimalism, and the elimination of binding conditions.Central topics in pragmatics
Implicature
Presupposition
Speech acts
DeixisPragmatics and its interfaces
Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory
Pragmatics and semantics
Pragmatics and syntaxSuggested solutions to exercises