自序 Preface Part 1 General Understanding Chapter 1 Defining pragmatics 1.1 Pragmatics 1.2 Context 1.3 Some important distinctions 1.3.1 Semantics and pragmatics 1.3.2 Logic and pragmatics 1.3.3 Sociolinguistics and pragrnatics 1.3.4 Sentence, utterance, and proposition 1.4 Summary 1.5 Recommendation for reading 1.6 Exercises Part 2 Fundamental Concepts Chapter 2 Deixis 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Definition and features 2.3 Classification 2.3.1 Person deixis 2.3.2 Time deixis 2.3.3 Place deixis 2.3.4 Discourse deixis 2.3.5 Social deixis 2, 4 Deictic and non-deictie usages 2.5 New horizons in the studies of deixis 2.6 Summary 2.7 Recommendation for reading 2.8 Exercises Chapter 3 Conversational implicature 3.1 Philosophical background 3.2 Classes of implieature 3.2.1 Conventional implicature 3.2.2 Conversational implicature 3.3 Inference of conversational implicature 3.3.1 Cooperative principle 3.3.2 Cases of CP non-observance 3.4 Features of conversational implicature 3.4.1 Cancellability 3.4.2 Nondetachability 3.4.3 Calculability 3.4.4 Nonconventionality 3.4.5 Indeterminacy 3.5 Modification on theory of conversational implicature: Neo-Griceanism 3.5. 1 Horn's Q- and R- principles 3.5.1.1 Purpose and rationale 3.5.1.2 The principles 3.5.1.3 Division of pragmatic labor 3.5.2 Levinson's Q-, I-, and M-principles 3.5.2.1 Purpose and the principles 3.5.2.2 Order of interpreting implicatures 3.5.3 Difference between entailment, Q- and I- implicature 3.6 Further studies on theory of conversational implieature 3.6.1 On Griceanism 3.6.2 On neo-Grieeanisrn …… Chapter 4 Presupposition Chapter 5 Speech acts Part 3 Interdisciplinary Branches Chapter 6 Linguistic politeness Chapter 7 Crosscultural pragmatics Chapter 8 Interlanguage pramatics Chapter 9 Cognitive pragmatics Chapter 10 Pragmatics in translation Chapter 11 Adaptation Theory and Memetic Theory Chapter 12 Societal pragmatics,literary pramatics and forensic pragmatics Chapter 13 Universal pragmatics and neuropragmatics Part 4 Empirical research methodology in pragmatics Chapter 14 General understanding of empirical research Chapter 15 Pragmatic instruments and their validation Postface Bibliography