This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.
Drawing on authentic, real-life examples of pragmatic breakdown in children and adults who have developmental or acquired language disorders, Louise Cummings expertly guides readers to core insights and principles for understanding where context and meaning in human communication meet. Key features include:
- Chapter-opening learning objectives and chapter-closing summaries
- Authentic illustrative cases of atypical pragmatic interaction
- Exercises for checking knowledge and understanding
- Annotated recommended further reading
- A detailed glossary of important terms in pragmatics and clinical linguistics
Aimed equally at undergraduate and graduate students who are coming to pragmatics for the first time, the text discusses the key issues and concepts of this field in a fascinating new way. With a common, easy-to-follow structure across chapters and a wealth of pedagogical resources, this is an essential text for students of linguistics and applied linguistics, communication studies, speech-language pathology, psychology and cognitive science, and beyond.
Author(s): Louise Cummings
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 235
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.1 Language Breakdown as a Route Into Pragmatics
1.2 Pragmatics in Everyday Communication
1.3 Pragmatic Language Disorders
1.4 Pragmatic Disorders Illustrated
1 Speech Acts
1.1 Introduction
1.2 How to Realize a Speech Act
1.3 A New Approach to Meaning
1.4 Happy and Unhappy Performatives
1.5 Explicit and Implicit Performatives
1.6 Saying and Doing
1.7 Searle On Speech Acts
1.8 Indirect Speech Acts
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
2 Implicatures
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Grice and the Cooperative Principle
2.3 The Cooperative Principle and Implicature
2.4 Types of Implicature
2.5 Properties of Implicatures
2.6 Relevance Theory
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
3 Presuppositions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Economic Rationale for Presupposition
3.3 Presupposition Triggers
Iteratives
Factive Verbs
Comparatives
Change-of-state Verbs
Implicative Verbs
Temporal Clauses
3.4 Properties of Presuppositions
3.5 Presuppositions in the Real World
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
Note
4 Deixis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Person and Social Deixis
4.3 Place Deixis
4.4 Time Deixis
4.5 Discourse Deixis
4.6 Anaphora
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
Note
5 Figurative Language
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Idioms
5.3 Metaphors
5.4 Irony
5.5 Hyperbole
5.6 Proverbs
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
6 Politeness
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Brown and Levinson On Politeness
6.3 Politeness and Face in Clinical Settings
6.4 Criticisms of Brown and Levinson
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
7 Topic Management
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Topic Management in Clinical Settings
7.2.1 Topic Selection
7.2.2 Topic Introduction
7.2.3 Topic Development
7.2.4 Topic Termination
7.3 Analysing Topic Management in Conversation
7.4 Analysing Topic Management in Narration
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
8 Clinical Pragmatics
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Communication Cycle
8.3 Cognition and the Communication Cycle
8.4 Theory of Mind
8.5 Executive Functions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Questions
Answers
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Glossary
Bibliography
Appendix
Sam and Fred Story
Index
