Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Sociolinguistics vs pragmatics 11
5. Discourse pragmatics 33
6. The interface between pragmatics and conversation analysis 59
7. Pragmatics vs rhetoric 85
8. Narrative studies versus pragmatics (of narrative) 121
9. Translation studies and pragmatics 143
10. The interface between pragmatics and gesture studies 163
11. Pragmatics and anthropology 185
12. Integrative pragmatics and (im)politeness theory 213
13. Corpus linguistics and pragmatics 241
14. The interface between pragmatics and internet-mediated communication 267
15. Pragmatics, humor studies, and the study of interaction 291
16. Index 311