●Preface
●SECTION I
●Survey
●1 Language in use
●A sample of language
●What is a text?
●Text and discourse
●Spoken and written text
●Illustration from a crowded train
●Conclusion
●2 Communication
●Grammar and communication
●Three kinds of pragmatic meaning
●Four aspects of communicative competence
●Conclusion
●3 Context
●Conditions of language use
●Context and shared knowledge
●Text-activated context
●Unshared contexts: illustration from a battlefield......
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人們在對語言的特定細節進行剖析之前，應該對語言整體有個大致的了解。作為語言學研究方向的學生進行深入研究之前的熱身閱讀，《牛津語言學入門叢書》的主旨是為人們理解那些學術性強的語言學專著奠定理論基礎。因為這套叢書淺顯易懂，對那些感興趣卻並非專門從事語言研究的人進一步了解語言也大有裨益。威多森所著的《語篇分析》為其中一冊。
