Interessenniveau: 4LE, Für ELT / ESL-Lernen, Kurse, Prüfungen und Zertifikate
AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Speech acts1.1 Introduction1.2 How to realise a speech act1.3 A new approach to meaning1.4 Happy and unhappy performatives1.5 Explicit and implicit performatives1.6 Saying and doing1.7 Searle on speech acts1.8 Indirect speech actsSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 2: Implicatures2.1 Introduction2.2 Grice and the cooperative principle2.3 The cooperative principle and implicatures2.4 Types of implicature2.5 Properties of implicatures2.6 Relevance theorySuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 3: Presuppositions3.1 Introduction3.2 The economic rationale for presupposition3.3 Presupposition triggers3.4 Properties of presuppositions3.5 Presuppositions in the real worldSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 4: Deixis4.1 Introduction4.2 Person and social deixis4.3 Place deixis4.4 Time deixis4.5 Discourse deixis4.6 AnaphoraSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 5: Figurative language5.1 Introduction5.2 Idioms5.3 Metaphors5.4 Irony5.5 Hyperbole5.6 ProverbsSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 6: Politeness6.1 Introduction6.2 Brown and Levinson on politeness6.3 Politeness and face in clinical settings6.4 Criticisms of Brown and LevinsonSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 7: Topic management7.1 Introduction7.2 Topic management in clinical settings7.2.1 Topic selection7.2.2 Topic introduction7.2.3 Topic development7.2.4 Topic termination7.3 Analysing topic management in conversation7.4 Analysing topic management in narrationSuggestions for further readingQuestionsChapter 8: Clinical pragmatics 8.1 Introduction8.2 The communication cycle8.3 Cognition and the communication cycle8.4 Theory of mind8.5 Executive functionSuggestions for further readingQuestionsAnswersGlossaryBibliographyIndexAppendix