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本书是第一本比较全面地对语用学这一领域作出阐述的教科书和专著。作者莱文森沿袭英美语言学和哲学传统，选取英美学者语用学研究中几个最基本、最重要的题目，铺陈了这些课题研究的背景知识，并对研究成果进行了提纲挈领的归纳和深入浅出的评介。时至今日，它仍然是研究生学习语用学课程的必读书，是语用学研究的必备参考书。
作者介绍
目录
Preface
Acknotwledgements
Notation conventions
The scope of pragmatics
1  The origin and historical vagaries of the termpragmatics
  1.2  Defining pragmatics
  1.3  Current interest in pragmatics
  1.4  Computing context: an example
2  Deixis
  2.0  Introduction
  2.1  Philosophical approaches
  2.2  Descriptive approaches
    2.2.1  Person deixis
    2.2.2  Time deixis
    2.2.3  Place deixis
    2.2.4  Discourse deixis
    2.2.5  Social deixis
  2.3  Conclusions
3  Conversational implicature
  3.0  Introduction
  3.1  Grice's theory of implicature
  3.2  Revisions, problems and applications
    3.2.1  Tests for implicature
    3.2.2  Implicature and logical form
    3.2.3  Kinds of implicature
    3.2.4  Generalized Quantity implicatures
    3.2.5  Metaphor: a case of maxim exploitation
    3.2.6  Implicatum and language structure
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4  Presupposition
5  Speech acts
6  Conversational structure
7  Conclusions
Bibliography
Subject index
Index of names

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