Doing Pragmatics

Peter Grundy taught Pragmatics at Durham University for more than twenty years before his retirement. He currently lectures on the taught masters Applied Linguistics/ TESOL programme at Durham. He is co-editor with Dawn Archer of the Routledge Pragmatics Reader and author of several resource books for language teachers, as well as a past President of IATEFL.

• Preface1 Using and understanding language 2 Utterances and intentions 3 Inference and utterances 4 Inference and lexical items 5 Indexicality 6 Context and language7 Being polite AfterwordChecking understanding suggestions Glossary References Index

"Unparalleled with its rich collection of real-life examples and discourse data analyses, this textbook does more than opening the door of pragmatics: it persuades the readers that doing pragmatics is a way of life. The extensively revised fourth edition remains a highly entertaining read, just as the previous versions I have used as a main text on various courses in Hong Kong and London."Yan Jiang, SOAS University of London, UK