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.

About the Author

Peter Grundy taught Pragmatics at Durham University for more than 20 years before his retirement. He currently lectures on the taught masters Applied Linguistics/ TESOL programme at Durham University. 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.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032896113
Author Peter Grundy
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd