Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Pragmatics: definition and scope Chapter 2. What we do with language: Speech acts Chapter 3. On referring, saying, and implicating: Reference and inference Chapter 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 communication Chapter 6. Other topics of interest in pragmatics References Key to self-evaluation questions and exercises Index