本书用英语写成，举例新颖，内容生动，充满当代语用学的气息。作为入门教材，该教程既体现了专业学习的渐进性特点，又呈现了语用学的最新发展动态，是一本理想的语用学知识读本。全书每一章都附有练习题。这些习题均针对相关章节内容而设计，便于学生掌握所学章节知识，并有助于学生提高自身解决实际语言问题的能力，从而达到增强学生语言感悟性的目的。

介绍语用学基本理论以及最新研究方法和视角。

由概念解释或现象描述，到理论介绍和实例分析，再到延伸阅读推荐和练习思考，帮助学生全面深入地掌握语用学基本内容，提高学生语言感悟能力和语言交际能力。

例证鲜活，均为当今生活中的实例，具有很强的时代气息。

深入浅出，语言简明，易懂易学。

1 Background and definitions

 1.1 Background ofpragmatic

 1.2 Definitions of pragmatics

 1.3 Component vs. perspective

 1.4 Uses ofpragmatics

 1.5 Aims ofpragmatics

 1.6 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

2 Deixis and reference,

 2.1 Definition of deixis

 2.2 Types of deixis

 2.2.1 Person deixis

 2.2.2 Spatial deixis

 2.2.3 Temporal deixis

 2.2.4 Discourse deixis

 2.2.5 Social deixis

 2.3 Definition of reference

 2.4 Referential and attributive usages of referring expressions

 2.5 The role of context in identifying referents

 2.6 The role of co-text in identifying referents

 2.7 The role of anaphora, cataphora and zero anaphora in

 maintaining reference

 2.8 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

3 Presupposition

 3.1 Definition of presupposition

 3.2 Distinguishin presupposition from entailment

 3.3 Types of presupposition

 3.3.1 Existential presupposition

 3.3.2 Lexical presupposition

 3.3.3 Sfiuctural presupposition !

 3.3.4 Facdve presupp0sition

 3.3.5 Non-factive presupposition

 3.3.6 Counter-factual esipposidon

 3.4 Problematic properties

 3.4.1 Defeasibility

 3.4.2 Projection problem

 3.5 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

4 Conversational implicature (I)

 4.1 Definition ofimplicature

 4.2 The cooperative principle

 4.3 The four conversational maxims

 4.3.1 Observing the maxims

 4.3.2 Non-observance of the mans

 4.4 Types ofimplicature

 4.4.1 Conventional implicature

 4.4.2 Conversational implicature

 4.5 Properties of conversational implicature

 4.5.1 Cancelability

 4.5.2 Non-detachability

 4.5.3 Calculability

 4.5.4 Non-conventionality

 4.6 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

5 Conversational implicature (II)

 5.1 The politeness principle

 5.2 The six main maxims

 5.2.1 The tact maxim

 5.2.2 The generosity maxim

 5.2.3 The approbation maxim

 5.2.4 The modesty maxim

 5.2.5 The agreement maxim

 5.2.6 The sympathy maxim

 5.3 The relationship between the politeness principle and

 the cooperative principle

 5.4 Problems with Leech's politeness principle

 5.5 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

6 The relevance-theoretic framework

 6.1 The origin of relevance theory

 6.2 The principle of relevance

 6.2.1 The notion of relevance

 6.2.2 The cognitive and the communicative principles of relevance

 6.3 The notion of context

 6.3.1 Cognitive environment

 6.3.2 Context selection

 6.4 Relevance-guided comprehension

 6.4.1 A comprehension heuristic

 6.4.2 Implicature vs. explicature

 6.5 Constraints on relevance

 6.5.1 Conceptual and procedural encoding

 6.5.2 Types of contextual effects

 6.6 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

7 Speech act theory

 7.1 Definition of speech act

 7.2 Composition of a speech act

 7.3 Recognition ofillocutionary force

 7.3.1 Definition ofillocutionary force

 7.3.2 Illocutionary force indicating devices

 7.3.3 Felicity conditions

 7.4 Classification of speech acts

 7.4.1 Approaching the functions of speech acts

 7.4.2 Approaching the performance of speech acts

 7.5 Beyond speech act theory speech events

 7.6 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

8 Conversation analysis

 8.1 Introduction

 8.2 Theoretical preliminaries

 8.3 Turn-taking organization

 8.3.1 Turn constructional unit

 8.3.2 Turn-allocation component

 8.3.3 Turn-taking rules

 8.4 Adjacency pairs

 8.4.1 Insertion sequence

 8.4.2 Conditional relevance

 8.5 Preference organization

 8.5.1 Preferred vs. dispreferred second

 8.5.2 Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments

 8.5.3 Repair

 8.6 Pre-sequence

 8.6.1 Pre-announcements

 8.6.2 Pre-requests

 8.6.3 Summons-answer

 8.7 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

9 Conclusions

 9.1 Approaches to pragmatics

 9.2 The multidiscipfinary nature of pragmatics

 9.2.1 Pragmatics and branches of micro-linguistics

 9.2.2 Pragmatics and interdisciplinary fields

 9.3 The dynamic perspective of pragmatics

 9.3.1 The dynamics of communication

 9.3.2 The construction of meaning

 9.4 The application ofpragmatics

 9.5 Summary and further reading

 Questions for discussion

References