Grundy Peter. Doing Pragmatics

2nd edition. — Arnold; Oxford University Press, 2000. — 287 p. — ISBN: 0340971606Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, the third edition is fully revised and expanded.Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real data and examples. New chapters include pragmatic strengthening and language evolution, and intercultural communication.Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to "do" pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those studying linguistics and ELT.Using and understanding language
Deixis: the relation of reference to the poinf of origin of the utterance
Speech acts: language as action
Implicit meaning: Grice’s theory of conversational implicature
Implicit meaning: Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory
Presupposition
Politeness
Speech events
Talk
Reflexive language: metapragmatic and metasequential encoding
Doing project work in pragmatics