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ISBN-10 :  0192563688 

ISBN-13 : 9780192563682

Author: Betty Birner 

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context. There can be a big difference between what a speaker says and what they mean – i.e. between literal meaning and intended meaning. A speaker who says I need coffee can mean anything from ‘Please buy more coffee’ to ‘I’m really sleepy’. How is a hearer to know? In this book, Betty Birner explores how we get from what is said to what is meant, from the perspective of both the speaker and the hearer, dealing with a range of context-dependent issues in language along the way: literal and non-literal meaning, implicature, speech acts, reference, definiteness, presupposition, and information structure. She reveals how language users can infer each other’s meanings using not just what is being said but also the context and an assumption of rationality and cooperation. This slim guide summarizes the most important and foundational theories in the field of linguistic pragmatics, illustrated with plenty of real-life examples, and including a helpful glossary of key terms. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from undergraduate and graduate students of pragmatics to general readers interested in how we successfully communicate with one another.

Pragmatics: A Slim Guide 1st Table of contents:

1: Introduction
For starters: Some basic terminology
Semantics
Conclusion
2: Literal vs. non-literal meaning
Natural and non-natural meaning
Conventional and intentional meaning
Context-dependent and context-independent meaning
Truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning
3: Implicature
The Cooperative Principle
The Maxim of Quantity
The Maxim of Quality
The Maxim of Relation
The Maxim of Manner
Tests for conversational implicature
The Gricean model of meaning
Implicature after Grice
Conclusion
4: Speech acts
Direct and indirect speech acts
Illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect
Applications of the theory
Politeness
5: Reference
The discourse model
Referents
Sense and reference
Indexicals and deixis
6: Definiteness and anaphora
Definites vs. indefinites
Theories of definiteness
Anaphora
7: Presupposition
Presupposition triggers
Pragmatic views of presupposition
Accommodation
8: Information structure
Given and new information
Preposing and postposing constructions
Presupposition/focus constructions
Other constructions and constraints
9: New directions
Research methods
New directions in theory
10: Conclusion
Glossary
Sources of naturally occurring examples

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