User’s guide

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ note vii
4. User’s guide xi
5. Handbook A–Z
6. Activity types and pragmatic acts 3
7. Crossing 21
8. Dell Hymes and communicative competence 47
9. Directives (with a special emphasis on requests) 67
10. Heteroglossia 95
11. Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M. A. K.) Halliday 111
12. Wakimae 127
13. Cumulative index 155