Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Definitions of pragmatics
1.2 Meaning and context
1.3 Development of pragmatics
1.4 Organization of the book
1.5 Review
Chapter 2 Deixis
2.1 Preliminaries
2.2 Deictic and nondeictic uses
2.3 Types of deixis
2.3.1 Person deixis
2.3.2 Time deixis
2.3.3 Place deixis
2.3.4 Social deixis
2.3.5 Discourse deixis
2.4 Applications: Chinese vocatives as pragmatic markers
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Vocatives and coherence
2.4.3 Vocatives and involvement
2.4.4 Vocatives and (im)politeness
2.5 Review
Chapter 3 Presupposition
3.1 Entailment
3.1.1 Preliminaries
3.1.2 Types of entailment
3.2 Presupposition
3.2.1 Preliminaries
3.2.2 Types of presupposition
3.2.3 Properties of presupposition
3.2.4 Presupposition trigger
3.3 A comparison between entailment and presupposition
3.4 Applications: Entailment and presupposition in real life
3.4.1 English writing
3.4.2 Interpersonal communication
3.5 Review
Chapter 4 Implicature
4.1 Preliminaries
4.1.1 Natural and non-natural meaning
4.1.2 Implicature and implication
4.2 Types of implicature
4.2.1 Conversational and conventional implicatures
4.2.2 Generalized and particularized conversational implicatures
4.2.3 Scalar, alternate, and clausal implicatures
4.3 Classical Gricean Theory
4.3.1 Cooperative principle
4.3.2 Creation of conversational implicature
4.3.3 Criticisms of Gricean theory
4.4 NeoGricean and PostGricean Theories
4.4.1 Levinson’s Q, I, and MPrinciples
4.4.2 Horn’s Q and RPrinciples
4.4.3 Sperber & Wilson’s Principle of Relevance
4.4.4 Retrospections
4.5 Properties of conversational implicature
4.6 Applications: Exploiting the four Maxims in Friends
4.6.1 Exploiting the Maxim of Quantity
4.6.2 Exploiting the Maxim of Quality
4.6.3 Exploiting the Maxim of Relation
4.6.4 Exploiting the Maxim of Manner
4.7 Review
Chapter 5 Speech Acts
5.1 Preliminaries
5.1.1 Performativeconstative dichotomy
5.1.2 The performative hypothesis
5.2 Austin’s theorizing of speech acts
5.2.1 Felicity conditions on performatives
5.2.2 Locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts
5.2.3 Types of illocutionary force
5.3 Searle’s theorizing of speech acts
5.3.1 Felicity conditions on speech acts
5.3.2 Typology of speech acts
5.3.3 Direct and indirect speech acts
5.4 Recent developments in Speech Act Theory
5.4.1 Study of perlocution
5.4.2 Classifications of speech acts
5.4.3 Sequencing in speech acts
5.5 Speech acts across cultures and contexts
5.5.1 Crosscultural variations
5.5.2 Intralanguage variations
5.6 Applications: Persuasion in Chinese online forum requests
5.6.1 Introduction
5.6.2 Ethos: Projecting self to the requestees
5.6.3 Pathos: Awakening the emotion of the requestees
5.6.4 Logos: Reasoning with the requestees
5.7 Review
Chapter 6 Politeness and Impoliteness
6.1 Theorizing politeness
6.1.1 Characterizing politeness
6.1.2 Politeness as strategic face management
6.1.3 Politeness as a conversational maxim
6.1.4 Politeness as situated evaluation
6.2 Theorizing impoliteness
6.2.1 Types of impoliteness
6.2.2 Impoliteness as strategic face attacks
6.2.3 Impoliteness as conversational maxims
6.2.4 Impoliteness as a discursive practice
6.3 Some potential issues in (im)politeness research
6.4 Applications: Politeness in online forum requests
6.4.1 Introduction
6.4.2 Bald on record strategies
6.4.3 Positive politeness strategies
6.4.4 Negative politeness strategies
6.5 Review
Chapter 7 Research Methods
7.1 Literature mining
7.1.1 Four