Pragmatics

Preface ; SECTION 1 ; Survey ; Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics ; Regularity ; The pragmatics wastebasket ; Person deixis ; Spatial deixis ; Temporal deixis ; Deixis and grammar ; Referential and attributive uses ; Names and referents ; The role of co-text ; Anaphoric reference ; Presupposition ; Types of presupposition ; The projection problem ; Ordered entailments ; The cooperative principle ; Hedges ; Conversational implicature ; Generalized conversational implicatures ; Scalar implicatures ; Particularized conversational implicatures ; Properties of conversational implicatures ; Conventional implicatures ; Speech acts ; IFIDs ; Felicity conditions ; The performative hypothesis ; Speech act classification ; Direct and indirect speech acts ; Speech events ; 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 analysis ; Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels ; Conversational style ; Adjacency pairs ; Preference structure ; Discourse analysis ; Coherence ; Background knowledge ; Cultural schemata ; Cross-cultural pragmatics ; SECTION 2 ; Readings ; SECTION 3 ; References ; SECTION 4 ; Glossary