Yule George. Pragmatics

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996. — 152 p. — (Oxford Introductions to Language Study).
ISBN: 0194372073This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.Survey
Definitions and background
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
Regularity
The pragmatics wastebasket
Deixis and distance
Person deixis
Spatial deixis
Temporal deixis
Deixis and grammar
Reference and inference
Referential and attributive uses
Names and referents
The role of co-text
Anaphoric reference
Presupposition and entailment
Presupposition
Types of presupposition
The projection problem
Ordered entailments
Cooperation and implicature
The cooperative principle
Hedges
Conversational implicature
Generalized conversational implicatures
Scalar implicatures
Particularized conversational implicatures
Properties of conversational implicatures
Conventional implicatures
Speech acts and events
Speech acts
IFIDs
Felicity conditions
The performative hypothesis
Speech act classification
Direct and indirect speech acts
Speech events
Politeness and interaction
Politeness
Face wants
Negative and positive face
Self and other: say nothing
Say something: off and on record
Positive and negative politeness
Strategies
Pre-sequences
Conversation and preference structure
Conversation analysis
Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels
Conversational style
Adjacency pairs
Preference structure
Discourse and culture
Discourse analysis
Coherence
Background knowledge
Cultural schemata
Cross-cultural pragmaticsReadings