Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction
5. On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics 1
6. I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse
7. Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy 19
8. A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science 37
9. Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project 57
10. Form and function in evaluative language 87
11. Life before Nation 111
12. II. Pragmatics and grammar
13. A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions 133
14. How did we think? 149
15. The adverb truly in Present-Day English 169
16. III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis
17. Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse 189
18. ‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody 209
19. Besides as a connective 223
20. Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts 243
21. Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish 261
22. Name index 285
23. Term index 289