Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Abbreviations and symbols xiii
4. Corpora and online dictionaries xv
5. Tables and figures xvii
6. About the author xxi
7. Foreword xxiii
8. Chapter 1. Cognitive linguistics and pragmatics 1
9. Chapter 2. Cognitive-pragmatic motivation of language structure and use 21
10. Chapter 3. The role of inference in the construction of meaning 43
11. Chapter 4. Principles guiding communication 63
12. Chapter 5. Implicature, entailment, and presupposition 83
13. Chapter 6. Talking as action 109
14. Chapter 7. Metaphor 139
15. Chapter 8. Metonymy 163
16. Chapter 9. Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts I 195
17. Chapter 10. Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts II 215
18. Chapter 11. Cognitive pragmatics and grammar 235
19. Chapter 12. Epilogue 261
20. References 267
21. Name index 279
22. Subject Index 281