Pragmatics

 Chapter 1. Pragmatics: definition and scopeChapter 2. What we do with language: Speech acts Chapter 3. On referring, saying, and implicating: Reference and inferenceChapter 4. Politeness and Impoliteness: How to verbally reconcile our interlocutors' wants with our own (or not)Chapter 5. Relevance: processing effort and contextual effects of communicationChapter 6. Other topics of interest in pragmaticsReferencesKey to self-evaluation questions and exercisesIndex