Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics, which both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate or postgraduate students of pragmatics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics or TESOL programmes.

Anne O'Keeffe is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Brian Clancy is Lecturer in Academic Writing and Research Methods, Academic Learning Centre, and Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Svenja Adolphs is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Head of School at the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.

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List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Researching Pragmatics

Chapter 3 Corpus Pragmatics

Chapter 4 Reference

Chapter 5 Politeness

Chapter 6 Speech Acts

Chapter 7 Pragmatics and Language Variation

Chapter 8 Pragmatics and Variation at the Level of Register

Chapter 9 Pragmatics and Language Teaching

Appendix 1

References

Index