Pragmatics

Previously published as Pragmatics and Discourse, the newedition of this best-selling textbook: has been revised and reorganised to focus solely on pragmaticscovers the core areas of the subject: context, co-text, speech acts, conversation structure, the cooperative principle, politeness and extends to more applied areas: corpora & communities, and culture & language learningdraws on a wealth of texts that include political speeches and newspaper extractsprovides classic readings from the leading scholars in the disciplineis accompanied by a companion website featuring extra activities and advice for professors and students on how to use the book.