“當代國外語言學與應用語言學文庫”（升級版）是主要面向高校英語專業高年級本科生、研究生及英語教師的一
套大型、開放的繫列叢書。本升級版或保留原有經典圖書品種，或繼之以經典圖書的新版，或引進國外語言學與應
用語言學領域的新銳力作以進一步拓展學科領域，希望它能繼續對我國語言學教學與研究和外語教學與研究起到積
極的推動作用。

●Preface xxxiii
Acknowledgements xxxiv
1 What is pragmatics? 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Defining pragmatics 1
1.3 From abstract meaning to contextual meaning 2
1.4 Utterance meaning: the first level of speaker meaning 16
1.5 Force: the second level of speaker meaning 18
1.6 Definitions of pragmatics (revisited) 21
1.7 Summary 23
2 Speech acts 28
2.1 J. L. Austin 28
2.2 Ordinary language philosophy 29
2.3 Logical positivism and truth conditional semantics 29
2.4 The performative hypothesis 32
2.5 Utterances as actions 49
2.6 Conclusion 51
3 Conversational implicature 55
3.1 Introduction 55
3.2 H. P. Grice 56
3.3 Implicature 57
3.4 The Cooperative Principle 61
3.5 The four conversational maxims 63
3.6 Flouting a maxim 65
3.7 Other categories of non-observance of the conversational maxims 72
3.8 Testing for implicature 78
3.9 Conclusion 84
4 Approaches to pragmatics 87
4.1 Introduction 87
4.2 Problems with Grice's theory 87
4.3 Grice's informal approach 93
4.4 J. R. Searle 93
4.5 Searle’s formal approach to the categorization of speech acts 105
4.6 Rules versus principles 107
4.7 Conclusion 114
5 Pragmatics and indirectness 119
5.1 Introduction 119
5.2 Pragmatics and indirectness 119
5.3 How do we know how indirect to be? 124
5.4 Measuring indirectness 133
5.5 Why use indirectness? 142
5.6 Conclusion 146
6 Theories of politeness 149
6.1 Introduction 149
6.2 Delimiting the concept of politeness 149
6.3 Politeness explained in terms of principles and maxims158
6.4 Politeness and the management of face 168
6.5 Politeness viewed as a conversational contract 176
6.6 Politeness measured along pragmatic scales 177
6.7 Conclusion 178
7 The construction of meaning 183
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本書強調語用學的動態研究，對語用學理論和術語追根溯源、透徹分析；章節內容細致清晰，語言文字平白流暢；例句信手撚來，源自大眾媒體、小說、日常生活會話等，生動活潑，說服力強。它不隻是一本旨在介紹語用學基本內容的教科書，而且對語用現像有頗多新解和獨到觀察，並對語用學研究存在的一些問題進行了評述，對認識語用現像和進一步從事語用學研究有很大的啟發意義和參考價值。