Oils: Pragmatics

Part of a series providing introductions to the main disciplinary areas of English language study, this survey of pragmatics explains how people make sense of e... » 

Part of a series providing introductions to the main disciplinary areas of English language study, this survey of pragmatics explains how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains and illustrates basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis and speech arcs. «