本书兼具学术专著和课程教材的特色与功能,以明了易懂的英语介绍了语用学这门学科的渊源、发展路径、主要理论、成果和研究方法。避免了一些国外同类教材语言晦涩费解给中国学生带来的理解困难。作为一个起步,本教材选取了这个领域*基本、*主要的内容,为学生日后进一步学习打下基础。

chapter 1 introduction
1.1 the origin and development of pragmatics
1.1.1 the philosophical origin
1.1.2 the growth ofpragmatics in modem linguistics
1.1.3 the two traditions of study
1.2 definitions ofpragmatics
1.3 pragmatic study of meaning
1.4 the notion of context
1.4.1 the early explications of context
1.4.2 the role of context in utterance interpretation
1.4.3 the dynamic nature of context
1.4.4 the manipulability of context
study questions
further reading
chapter 2 reference and deixis