本书是当代国外语言学与应用语言文库中的一册，全书共分十章，采取以读者为中心的交流方式，通过巧妙设计的练习，向语言学研究的门外汉介绍语言学研究的各个领域，力求生动有趣，浅显易懂，有一定的覆盖面，并能为读者日后更深入地了解语言学打下基础。

Preface by Halliday

王宗炎序

导读

Using this book

Acknowledgements

1 What is pragmatics?

2 Entailment

3 Presupposition

4 The co-operative principle and implicature

5 More on implicatures

6 Speech acts

7 More about speech acts

8 Politeness

9 Making sense

10 Exploring pragmatics:projects

Answers to further exercises

Bibliography

Index

文库索引

As you can see,two or more utterances might have the same underlying sentence as their ‘script’,but they can have quite different interpretations in context.