Understanding pragmatics [electronic resource] /
Gunter Senft.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
- 1 online resource (ix, 222 p.)
- Understanding language series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Pragmatics and philosophy : what we do when we speak and what we actually mean : speech act theory and the theory of conversational implicature -- 2. Pragmatics and psychology : deictic reference and gesture -- 3. Pragmatics and human ethology : biological foundations of communicative behaviour -- 4. Pragmatics and ethnology : the interface of language, culture and cognition -- 5. Pragmatics and sociology : everyday social interaction -- 6. Pragmatics and politics : language, social class, ethnicity and education and linguistic ideologies -- 7. Understanding pragmatics : summary and outlook.