《语用学》一书作者对语用学与句法学以及语义学的界面进行研究,为我们展现出了一幅比较完整的语用学研究图景。全书见解独到、内容新颖,是一部**的语用学教科书。本书作者黄衍早年留学英国,师从**语用学家Stephen C.Levinson,获剑桥大学博士学位,后再获牛津大学博士学位,并曾在这两所大学及雷丁大学执教。黄衍现为新西兰奥克兰大学语言学及应用语言学系教授。

Preface
Acknowledgements
Symbols and abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1. What is pragmatics?
1.1.1. A definition
1.1.2. A brief history of pragmatics
1.1.3. Two main schools of thought in pragmatics: Anglo-American versus European Continental
1.2. Why pragmatics?
1.2.1. Linguistic underdeterminacy
1.2.2. Simplification of semantics and syntax
1.3. Some basic notions in semantics and pragmatics
1.3.1. Sentence, utterance, proposition
1.3.2. Context
1.3.3. Truth value, truth condition, entailment
1.4. Organization of the book
Key concepts
Exercises and essay questions
Further readings
Part I Central topics in pragmatics
2. Implicature
2.1. Classical Gricean theory of conversational implicature
2.1.1. The co-operative principle and the maxims of conversation
2.1.2. Relationship between the speaker and the maxims
2.1.3. Conversational implicatureo versus conversational implicatureF
2.1.4. Generalized versus particularized conversational implicature
2.1.5. Properties of conversational implicature
2.2. Two neo-Gricean pragmatic theories of conversational implicature
2.2.1. The Hornian system
2.2.2. The Levinsonian system
2.3. Conventional implicature
2.3.1. What is conventional implicature?
2.3.2. Properties of conventional implicature
2.4. Summary
Key concepts
Exercises and essay questions
Further readings
3. Presupposition
3.1. What is presupposition?
3.2. Properties of presupposition
3.2.1. Constancy under negation
3.2.2. Defeasibility
3.2.3. The projection problem
3.3. Analyses
3.3.1. The filtering-satisfaction analysis
3.3.2. The cancellation analysis
3.3.3. The accommodation analysis
3.4. Summary
Key concepts
Exercises and essay questions
Further readings
4.Speech acts
4.1. Performatives versus constatives
4.1.1. The performative/constative dichotomy
4.1.2. The performative hypothesis
4.2. Austin's felicity conditions on performatives
4.3. Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary speech acts
4.4. Searle's felicity conditions on speech acts
4.5. Searle's typology of speech acts
5. Deixis
Part II Pragmatics and its interfaces
6. Pragmatics and cognition: relevance theory
7. Pragmatics and semantics
8. Pragmatics and syntax
Glossary
References
Suggested solutions to exercises
Index of names
Index of languages, language families, and language areas
Index of subjects