Pragmatics

<p>In <em>Pragmatics</em>, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. <em>Pragmatics</em>:</p><ul> <li>encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences</li> <li>provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts</li> <li>introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the Co-Operative Principle and Speech Act Theory</li> <li>encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, eg. advertising language and children's conversations</li> <li>provides a range of activities, discussion questions, an answer key and further reading.</li> </ul> <p>1. What is pragmatics 2. Entailment 3. Presupposition 4. The co-operative principle and implicature 5. More on implicatures 6. Speech acts 7. More about speech acts 8. Politeness 9. Making sense 10. Exploring pragmatics: projects</p>