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"Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics" by Jenny A. Thomas

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"Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics" by Jenny A. Thomas

"Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics" by Jenny A. Thomas
Learning about Language
Rоutlеdgе / Tауlоr&Frаnсis | 2011/1995 | ISBN: 0582291518 9780582291515 9781315842011 | 241 pages | PDF | 19 MB

This volume is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts. It is an ideal introductory textbook for students of linguistics and for all who are interested in analysing problems in communication.

Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both speaker and hearer, and takes into account the social and psychological factors involved in the generation and interpretation of utterances.

The book includes a detailed examination of the development of Pragmatics as a discipline, drawing attention to problems encountered in earlier work, and brings the reader up to date with recent discussion in the field.
The book is written principally for students with no previous knowledge of pragmatics, and the basic concepts are covered in considerable detail. Theoretical and more complicated information is highlighted with examples that have been drawn from the media, fiction and real-life interaction, and makes the study more accessible to newcomers.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 What is pragmatics?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Defining pragmatics
1.3 From abstract meaning to contextual meaning
1.4 Utterance meaning: first level of speaker meaning
1.5 Force: the second level of speaker meaning
1.6 Definitions of pragmatics (revisited)
1.7 Summary
2 Speech acts
2.1 J. L. Austin
2.2 Ordinary language philosophy
2.3 Logical positivism and truth conditional semantics
2.4 The performative hypothesis
2.5 Utterances as actions
2.6 Conclusion
3 Conversational implicature
3.1 Introduction
3.2 H. P. Grice
3.3 Implicature
3.4 The Cooperative Principle
3.5 The four conversational maxims
3.6 Flouting a maxim
3.7 Other categories of non-observance of the conversational
3.8 Testing for implicature
3.9 Conclusion
4 Approaches to pragmatics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Problems with Grice's theory
4.3 Grice's informal approach
4.4 J. R. Searle
4.5 Searle's formal approach to the categorization of speech acts
4.6 Rules versus principles
4.7 Conclusion
5 Pragmatics and indirectness
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Pragmatics and indirectness
5.3 How do we know how indirect to be?
5.4 Measuring indirectness
5.5 Why use indirectness?
5.6 Conclusion
6 Theories of politeness
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Delimiting the concept of politeness
6.3 Politeness explained in terms of principles and maxims
6.4 Politeness and the management of face
6.5 Politeness viewed as a conversational contract
6.6 Politeness measured along pragmatic scales
6.7 Conclusion
7 The construction of meaning
7.1 Introduction
7.2 How does pragmatics fit into linguistics?
7.3 Pragmatics versus sociolinguistics
7.4 Activity types versus speech events
7.5 The construction of meaning
7.6 What counts as evidence in pragmatics?
7.7 Conclusion
References
Author Index
General Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks