Preface Foreword Chapter One CourseOverview 1 Pragmatics-Studies of Language Comprehension and Application 2 Pragmatics-Studies of Languahe Appropriateness and Tactfulness 3 The Development of Pragmatics 3.1 Micropragmatics and Macropragmatics 3.2 Micropragmatics---the Dyanmic Description of Language 3.3 Micropragmatics---Pragmatics and Beyond 4 Corss-cultural Pragmatics 4.1 Pragmatic Studied of Speech Acts 4.2 Studies of Socio-cultural Pragmatics 4.3 Studids of Contrastive Pragmatics 4.4 Pragmatic Studies of Intrtlanguae 5 Interlanguage Pragmatics 6 Societal Pragmatics 7 Cognitive Pragmatics Chapter Two What Is Pragmatics? Chapter Three Deixis Chapter Four Conversational Implicature Chapter Five Linguistic Politeness Chapter Six Presupposition Chapter Seven Performatives and Speecs Acts Chapter Eight Heging in Discourse Chapter Nine The Structure of Information Chapter Ten Pragmatic Vagueness Chapter Eleven Language Use and social Culture Chapter Twelve Cultural Differences and Pragmatics in Translation Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index