Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics. This book provides the ideal foundation for all those studying pragmatics within English language, linguistics and ELT/TESOL.

Peter Grundy taught Pragmatics at Durham University for more than twenty years before his retirement. He currently lectures on the taught masters Applied Linguistics/ TESOL programme at Durham. He is co-editor with Dawn Archer of the Routledge Pragmatics Reader and author of several resource books for language teachers, as well as a past President of IATEFL.

Preface

1 Using and understanding language

2 Utterances and intentions

3 Inference and utterances

4 Inference and lexical items

5 Indexicality

6 Context and language

7 Being polite

Afterword

Checking understanding suggestions

Glossary

References

Index