This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on
from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas …

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 textbook …

The first substantial textbook on pragmatics to focus on Spanish. The authors discuss key
theories within the Anglo-American tradition of pragmatics, concentrating on the relationship …

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary
influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a …

This paper analyses classroom discourse in Finnish EFL classrooms where English is the
object of study and content-based (Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)) …

This study develops an overarching theoretical framework of the strategic elasticity of vague
language (eg,“I probably have some books on the topic”), which has been lacking in the …

Court interpreters are required to provide accurate renditions of witnesses' utterances during
courtroom examinations, but the accuracy of interpreting may be compromised for a number …

One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the
theoretical and empirical developments that have occurred in the area of (im) politeness in …

Language teachers have long used lists of important vocabulary as a guide to course design
and materials preparation, and corpus data have always played a major part in developing …