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Taylor and Francis Pragmatics A Resource Book For Students 4Th Edition 2020 by Joan Cutting, Kenneth Fordyce
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration, and extension - that offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to gradually build on the knowledge gained.Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling textbook:Covers the core areas of the subject: speech acts, the cooperative principle, relevance theory, corpus pragmatics, politeness theory, and critical discourse analysisHas updated and new sections on intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, critical discourse analysis and the pragmatics of power, second language pragmatic competence development, impoliteness, post-truth discourse, vague language, pragmatic markers, formulaic sequences, and online corpus toolsDraws on a wealth of texts in a variety of languages, including political TV interviews, newspaper articles, extracts from classic novels and plays, recent international films, humorous narratives, and exchanges on email, messaging, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsAppProvides recent readings from leading scholars in the discipline, including Jonathan Culpeper, Lynne Flowerdew, and Cesar Felix-BrasdeferIs accompanied by eResources featuring extra material and activities.Written by two experienced teachers and researchers, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics. Contents cross-referencedList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsA Introduction: concepts in pragmatics1 Context and structure2 Speech act theory3 Cooperative principle4 Politeness and impoliteness5 Corpora and communities6 Critical discourse analysis7 Intercultural pragmatics8 Pragmatics and language learningB Development: studies in pragmatics1 Analysing context2 Using speech acts3 Understanding implicature4 Analysing politeness and impoliteness5 Analysing markers6 Detecting hidden values7 Studying intercultural pragmatics8 Teaching pragmaticsC Exploration: data for investigation1 Contexts in writing2 Culture and indirectness3 Flouting and violating4 Politeness and impoliteness5 Variation and multimodal corpora6 Language and power7 Understanding each other8 Pragmatics online and learningD Extension: readings1 Conversation analysis and ELF (Anita Santner-Wolfartsberger)2 Speech acts and conversation analysis (J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer)3 Relevance and emotion (Baiyao Zuo and Wen Yuana, Francis Y. Lin, and Richard P. Cooper)4 Impoliteness and rudeness (Jonathan Culpeper)5 Corpora and language teaching (Lynne Flowerdew)6 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (Steve Buckledee and David Machin)7 African face needs (Karen Grainger, Sara Mills, and Mandla Sibanda)8 Pragmatic development, ELF, and TBLT (Neil Murray and Marta Gonzalez-Lloret)ReferencesIndex