Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Tables and figures xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Spoken discourse and corpus analysis 19
7. Chapter 3. Pragmatic functions, conventionalised speech acts expressions and corpus evidence 43
8. Chapter 4. Pragmatic functions in context 73
9. Chapter 5. Exploring pragmatic functions in discourse: The speech act episode 89
10. Chapter 6. Pragmatic functions beyond the text 117
11. Chapter 7. Concluding remarks 131
12. Appendix: Transcription conventions for the CANCODE data used in this book 137
13. References 139
14. Index 149