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
Context and shared values
Conclusion
4 Schematic conventions
Context and situation
The concept of the schema
Frames of reference
Frames and cultural assumptions
Interpersonal routines
Adjacency pairs
Genres
Conclusion
5 Co-textual relations
Information structure
Text linkage
Anaphora and pro-forms
Cohesion
Cohesion and the least effort principle
Cohesion and coherence
Conclusion
6 The negotiation of meaning
Systemic and schematic knowledge
Communicative convergence
Negotiating convergence
The co-operative principle
The quantity maxim
Conversational implicature
The maxims of quality, relation, and manner
Co-operative and territorial imperatives
Conclusion
7 Critical analysis
Positioning
Terms of reference
Alternative wordings and persuasive purpose
Critical discourse analysis
Identifying the significance of textual choice
Implicatures and textual choice
Implicatures and grammatical choice
Conclusion
8 Text analysis
Actually attested language
Norms of usage
Patterns of collocation
Semantic prosodies
Conclusion: text analysis and discourse interpretation
SECTION 2
Readings
SECTION 3
References
SECTION 4
Glossary
Acknowledgements