Doing Pragmatics
5th Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-032-89611-3 (ISBN)
Description
Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterized the previous editions, this fifth edition has been fully revised. Doing Pragmatics extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and provides students with the opportunity to 'do' pragmatics themselves. A distinctive feature of this textbook is that virtually all the examples are taken from real world uses of language which reflect the emergent nature of communicative interaction.
Consolidating the strengths of the original version, the text reinforces its unique combination of theory and practice exercises and up-to-date real data and examples. New for the fifth edition are brief in-chapter sections on research showing a wide range of approaches to collecting, analysing and reporting data as well as an all-new chapter on second language pragmatics that proposes an alternative approach to the role of pragmatics in language teaching and learning.
This book provides the ideal foundation for all those studying pragmatics within English language, linguistics and ELT/ TESOL.
Consolidating the strengths of the original version, the text reinforces its unique combination of theory and practice exercises and up-to-date real data and examples. New for the fifth edition are brief in-chapter sections on research showing a wide range of approaches to collecting, analysing and reporting data as well as an all-new chapter on second language pragmatics that proposes an alternative approach to the role of pragmatics in language teaching and learning.
This book provides the ideal foundation for all those studying pragmatics within English language, linguistics and ELT/ TESOL.
More details
Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core
Illustrations
4 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen, 7 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 11 s/w Abbildungen
2 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-89611-3 (9781032896113)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Previous edition
Person
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.
Content
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 Second language pragmatics Afterword Checking understanding suggestions Glossary Index