Pragmatics

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline.

Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application. Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field. Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses.

Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions.

Pragmatics provides a broad view of pragmatics from a cross-cultural and varietal perspective, gathering readings from key names in the discipline, including Geoffrey Leech, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Kohnen, Brigette Nerlich, Joan Manes and Nessa Wolfson, Anna Wierzbicka and Gabriele Kaspar.

Covers a wide range of topics, including speech acts, pragmatic markers, implicature, research methods in pragmatics, facework and politeness, and also new areas of research such as prosody. Examines the social and cultural contexts in which pragmatics occurs, such as in cross-cultural pragmatics (silence, indirectness, forms of address, cultural scripts) and pragmatics and power (the courtroom, police interaction, political interviews and doctor-patient communication).

Uses a wide range of corpora to provide both illustrative examples and exploratory tasks. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Pragmatics provides an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.