Preface SECTION 1 Survey 1 Definitions and background Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics Regularity The pragmatics wastebasket 2 Deixis and distance Person deixis Spatial deixis Temporal deixis Deixis and grammar 3 Reference and inference Referential and attributive uses Names and referents The role of co-text Anaphoric reference 4 Presupposition and entailment Presupposition Types of presupposition The projection problem Ordered entailments 5 Cooperation and implicature The cooperative principle Hedges Conversational implicature Generalized conversational implicatures Scalar implicatures Particularized conversational implicatures Properties of conversational implicatures Conventional implicatures 6 Speech acts and events Speech acts IFIDs Felicity conditions The performative hypothesis Speech act classification Direct and indirect speech acts Speech events 7 Politeness and interaction Politeness Face wants Negative and positive face Self and other: say nothing Say something: off and on record Positive and negative politeness Strategies Pre-sequences 8 Conversation and preference structure Conversation analysis Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels Conversational style Adjacency pairs Preference structure 9 Discourse and culture Discourse analysis Coherence Background knowledge Cultural schemata Cross-cultural pragmatics SECTION 2 Readings SECTION 3 References SECTION 4 Glossary.