Pragmatics

Joan Cutting is a senior lecturer in TESOL at the University of Edinburgh. She studies intercultural pragmatics, vague language, and in-group codes. She is author of Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities (2000) and Language in Context in TESOL (2015), editor of Vague Language Explored (2007), and coeditor of the Edinburgh Textbooks in TESOL series (2013–2017).Kenneth Fordyce is a lecturer in TESOL at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked as a language teacher in Austria and Japan. His research covers corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and intercultural pragmatics. He has a particular interest in post-truth discourse and the language of truth and lies in politics, the media, and health communication.

• Contents cross-referencedList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsA Introduction: concepts in pragmatics1 Context and structure2 Speech act theory3 Cooperative principle4 Politeness and impoliteness5 Corpora and communities6 Critical discourse analysis7 Intercultural pragmatics8 Pragmatics and language learningB Development: studies in pragmatics1 Analysing context2 Using speech acts3 Understanding implicature4 Analysing politeness and impoliteness5 Analysing markers6 Detecting hidden values7 Studying intercultural pragmatics8 Teaching pragmaticsC Exploration: data for investigation1 Contexts in writing2 Culture and indirectness3 Flouting and violating4 Politeness and impoliteness5 Variation and multimodal corpora6 Language and power7 Understanding each other8 Pragmatics online and learningD Extension: readings1 Conversation analysis and ELF (Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger)2 Speech acts and conversation analysis (J. César Félix-Brasdefer)3 Relevance and emotion (Baiyao Zuo and Wen Yuana, Francis Y. Lin, and Richard P. Cooper)4 Impoliteness and rudeness (Jonathan Culpeper)5 Corpora and language teaching (Lynne Flowerdew)6 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (Steve Buckledee and David Machin)7 African face needs (Karen Grainger, Sara Mills, and Mandla Sibanda)8 Pragmatic development, ELF, and TBLT (Neil Murray and Marta González-Lloret)ReferencesIndex

Pragmatics is no longer just a subject of philosophical enquiry and is now firmly established as the investigation of the real world of everyday language use in all its variety and media of communication. This book gives the most up-to-date introduction to a fast-moving field.Michael McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Limerick, and Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University.