Preface Acknotwledgements Notation conventions The scope of pragmatics 1 The origin and historical vagaries of the termpragmatics 1.2 Defining pragmatics 1.3 Current interest in pragmatics 1.4 Computing context: an example 2 Deixis 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Philosophical approaches 2.2 Descriptive approaches 2.2.1 Person deixis 2.2.2 Time deixis 2.2.3 Place deixis 2.2.4 Discourse deixis 2.2.5 Social deixis 2.3 Conclusions 3 Conversational implicature 3.0 Introduction 3.1 Grice's theory of implicature 3.2 Revisions, problems and applications 3.2.1 Tests for implicature 3.2.2 Implicature and logical form 3.2.3 Kinds of implicature 3.2.4 Generalized Quantity implicatures 3.2.5 Metaphor: a case of maxim exploitation 3.2.6 Implicatum and language structure …… 4 Presupposition 5 Speech acts 6 Conversational structure 7 Conclusions Bibliography Subject index Index of names
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