Pragmatics

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration, and extension – that offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to gradually build on the knowledge gained.

Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling textbook:

Covers the core areas of the subject: speech acts, the cooperative principle, relevance theory, corpus pragmatics, politeness theory, and critical discourse analysis

Has updated and new sections on intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, critical discourse analysis and the pragmatics of power, second language pragmatic competence development, impoliteness, post-truth discourse, vague language, pragmatic markers, formulaic sequences, and online corpus tools

Draws on a wealth of texts in a variety of languages, including political TV interviews, newspaper articles, extracts from classic novels and plays, recent international films, humorous narratives, and exchanges on email, messaging, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp

Provides recent readings from leading scholars in the discipline, including Jonathan Culpeper, Lynne Flowerdew, and César Félix-Brasdefer

Is accompanied by eResources featuring extra material and activities.

Written by two experienced teachers and researchers, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics.

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgements

A Introduction: concepts in pragmatics

1 Context and structure

2 Speech act theory

3 Cooperative principle

4 Politeness and impoliteness

5 Corpora and communities

6 Critical discourse analysis

7 Intercultural pragmatics

8 Pragmatics and language learning

B Development: studies in pragmatics

1 Analysing context

2 Using speech acts

3 Understanding implicature

4 Analysing politeness and impoliteness

5 Analysing markers

6 Detecting hidden values

7 Studying intercultural pragmatics

8 Teaching pragmatics

C Exploration: data for investigation

1 Contexts in writing

2 Culture and indirectness

3 Flouting and violating

4 Politeness and impoliteness

5 Variation and multimodal corpora

6 Language and power

7 Understanding each other

8 Pragmatics online and learning

D Extension: readings

1 Conversation analysis and ELF (Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger)

2 Speech acts and conversation analysis (J. César Félix-Brasdefer)

3 Relevance and emotion (Baiyao Zuo and Wen Yuana, Francis Y. Lin, and Richard P. Cooper)

4 Impoliteness and rudeness (Jonathan Culpeper)

5 Corpora and language teaching (Lynne Flowerdew)

6 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (Steve Buckledee and David Machin)

7 African face needs (Karen Grainger, Sara Mills, and Mandla Sibanda)

8 Pragmatic development, ELF, and TBLT (Neil Murray and Marta González-Lloret)

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