由李怀奎所著的《语用学--基本概念跨学科分支和研究方法》研究语用学中的基本概念、最新动态和研究方法。基本概念上，除了探讨语用学的基本概念，语用学和语义学、社会语言学、逻辑学等学科的区别，还研究语用学中的基本术语和理论分支，比如微观语用学中的指示语、会话含意（包括新格赖斯会话含意）、预设、言语行为和宏观语用学中的礼貌研究、跨文化语用学、过渡语语用学、认知语用学等等的内涵、来源、理论基础和研究内容；最新动态方面，探索近二十年多来出现的理论和语用学分支如顺应论、模因论、普遍语用学、社会语用学、文学语用学等分支的内容和研究进展；研究方法上，论述语用学中的实证研究方法，包括研究步骤、分类和第二语言语用学研究中的数据收集工具以及对工具有效性的论证方法。

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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

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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

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