Key Notions for Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface to the series -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Pragmatics and its formative traditions -- 2. Pragmatics as a repository of interesting topics -- 3. The problem of delimitation -- 4. On dimensions, perspectives, methodology, and evidence -- 5. A functional perspective on language -- References -- Adaptability -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Biological adaptability and language -- 2.1 The adaptive emergence of language -- 2.2 The adaptive functioning of language -- 3. Social-interactive adaptability and language use -- 3.1 An adaptability theory of pragmatics -- 3.2 Applications of an adaptability perspective -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Channel -- 1. Digging underneath the speech/writing distinction -- 1.1 Print and handwriting -- 1.2 Televization and secondary orality -- 2. Beyond the verbal: The visual and the digital -- 2.1 Multi-modality and the visual -- 2.2 Digital hypertext -- 3. Afterthought -- References -- Communication -- 1. Language and communication -- 2. Communication in an evolutionary perspective -- 3. The mathematical theory of communication -- 4. Human communication -- 5. The study of language as communication -- 6. Communication and background -- 7. Intercultural communication -- 8. Business communication -- 9. Mass communication -- References -- Context and contextualization -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Context is more than deixis -- 3. Which contexts do we need to consider? -- 4. The nature of the contextual link -- 4.1 The creativity of contextualization -- 4.2 The vagueness of contextualization -- 4.3 The negotiability of context -- 4.4 The groundedness of context in interactional work -- 4.5 The culturality of contextualization -- 4.6 Indexicality - iconicity - symbolization -- 4.7 Using contexts -- References.

Conversational logic -- 1. Origins -- 2. The basic system of conversational logic -- 3. The universality of CP -- 4. CP and discourse genre -- 5. CP and politeness -- 6. Other discussion of indirectness -- 7. The future of CL -- References -- Deixis -- 1. Definitional and theoretical issues -- 2. Deictic semantics and morphology in a typological perspective -- 3. Formulating place: Deictics in interaction -- 4. Directions for further research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Implicitness -- 1. Historical note -- 2. Semantic and pragmatic categories of implicitness -- 2.1 Entailment -- 2.2 Semantic presupposition -- 2.3 Pragmatic presuppositions -- 2.4 Implicatures -- 2.4.1 Generalized and particularized implicatures -- 2.4.2 Conventional implicatures -- 2.5 Scalar implicatures -- 2.6 Politeness implicatures -- 2.7 Explicatures -- 2.8 Implicitures -- 3. Implicitness and cognition -- References -- Non-verbal communication -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Broad conception and scope (literal definitions) -- 1.2 Some basic concepts & distinctions (narrow definitions) -- 1.3 (Sub)categories of non-verbal communication -- 1.4 Functions of non-verbal communication -- 2. A historical overview and a synthesis of contemporary trends -- 2.1 The psychological viewpoint -- 2.2 The anthropological viewpoint -- 2.3 The sociological viewpoint -- 2.4 The semiotic viewpoint -- 2.5 The linguistic viewpoint -- 3. Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and non-verbal communication -- 3.1 Gesticulation, speech and thought -- 3.2 Acquisition of non-verbal communication -- 3.3 Pathologies of non-verbal communication -- 4. Pragmatics, discourse analysis and non-verbal communication -- 4.1 Non-verbal (speech?) acts -- 4.2 Deictic gestures and spatial orientation -- 4.3 Discursive styles, functional variation and conversation.

5. Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and non-verbal communication -- 5.1 Sociocultural factors and non-verbal communication -- 5.2 Multilingualism and non-verbal communication -- 6. Applied linguistics and non-verbal communication -- 6.1 Lexicography of gesture -- 6.2 Language learning -- 7. Concluding remarks -- 7.1 Theoretical considerations -- 7.2 Methodological considerations -- 7.3 Final historical comments -- 7.4 Afterthought -- References -- Presupposition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From semantic presuppositions to pragmatic presuppositions: Historical backgrounds -- 3. Pragmatic presuppositions -- 4. Pragmatic accounts of presupposition projection -- 5. Informative presuppositions: Context and accommodation -- 6. Hybrid presuppositions -- References -- Primate communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Primate vocal communication -- 3. Primate gestural communication -- 4. Where is the pragmatics? -- References -- Semiotics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic concepts of semiotics -- 3. Basic sign theories -- 3.1 Logical approaches -- 3.2 Structuralist approaches -- 3.3 Phenomenological approaches -- 3.4 Pragmatic approaches -- 3.5 Cultural approaches -- 4. Interdisciplinary extensions -- References -- Speech act theory -- 1. Where does speech act theory come from? -- 1.1 Frege and the assertion sign -- 1.2 Wittgenstein and the uses of language -- 1.3 Austin and the performative utterance -- 1.4 Grice and speaker's meaning -- 2. Utterances as acts -- 2.1 Austin's distinction of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts -- 2.1.1 The complexities of saying -- 2.1.2 The three kinds of effects of the illocutionary act -- 2.1.3 The distinction between illocution and perlocution -- 2.2 Searle's notion of the speech act as illocutionary act -- 2.2.1 Illocutionary force and propositional content -- 2.2.2 Felicity conditions as rules.

2.2.3 Intention and perlocution -- 3. Main problems in speech act theory -- 3.1 Illocutionary force-indicating devices -- 3.2 The classification of illocutionary acts -- 3.3 Modes of understanding -- 3.4 Speech acts and truth -- 3.5 Universality vs. the linguistic and cultural relativity of speech acts -- 4. Trends of development in speech act theory -- 4.1 From the conventionality of performatives to the naturality of inferences -- 4.2 From interpersonal action to the intentionality of the speaker's mind -- 4.3 Some collateral endeavors -- 5. Open issues and possibilities of further development -- References -- Index -- The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.