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Chapter 1 Using and understanding language |
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1.1 Studying language in use |
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1.2 From description to explanation |
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8 | (12) |
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20 | (8) |
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Chapter 2 Utterances and intentions |
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28 | (37) |
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28 | (3) |
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31 | (9) |
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2.3 Speech acts in the real world |
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40 | (8) |
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48 | (5) |
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2.5 Speech acts and metapragmatic awareness |
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53 | (3) |
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2.6 Understanding speech acts |
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56 | (1) |
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2.7 Speech acts in pragmatics |
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57 | (8) |
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Chapter 3 Inference and utterances |
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3.1 An invitation to infer |
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65 | (4) |
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3.2 Gricean and neo-Gricean pragmatics |
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69 | (23) |
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3.3 Post-Gricean pragmatics: relevance theory |
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92 | (10) |
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3.4 Inference in the real world |
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102 | (14) |
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3.5 Inference and metapragmatic awareness |
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116 | (7) |
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3.6 Understanding inference |
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123 | (2) |
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3.7 Implicature in pragmatics |
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125 | (13) |
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Chapter 4 Inference and lexical items |
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138 | (20) |
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138 | (2) |
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4.2 Grice's conventional implicature |
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140 | (2) |
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4.3 Narrowing and broadening in neo-Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics |
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142 | (6) |
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4.4 Words in the real world |
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148 | (6) |
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154 | (1) |
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4.6 Lexical meaning in inferential pragmatics |
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154 | (4) |
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158 | (47) |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (18) |
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5.3 The plurifunctionality of the sign |
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180 | (3) |
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5.4 Indexicality in the real world |
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183 | (14) |
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5.5 Indexicality and metapragmatic awareness |
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197 | (1) |
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5.6 Understanding indexicality |
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198 | (1) |
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5.7 Indexicality in pragmatics |
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199 | (6) |
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Chapter 6 Context and language |
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205 | (5) |
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6.2 Dimensions of context |
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210 | (4) |
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6.3 Context and culture in real world communication |
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214 | (8) |
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6.4 Context and talk-in-interaction |
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222 | (3) |
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225 | (7) |
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6.6 Understanding context |
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232 | (2) |
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6.7 Context in pragmatics |
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234 | (5) |
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7.1 Being polite and being rude |
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239 | (2) |
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7.2 Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness |
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241 | (7) |
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7.3 Politeness after Brown and Levinson |
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248 | (6) |
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7.4 Doing politeness in the real world |
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254 | (6) |
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7.5 Understanding politeness |
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260 | (1) |
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7.6 Politeness in pragmatics |
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261 | (5) |
| Afterword |
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266 | (2) |
| Checking understanding suggestions |
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268 | (6) |
| Glossary |
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274 | (5) |
| References |
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279 | (6) |
| Index |
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