PRAGMALINGUISTICS: EAST EUROPEAN APPROACHES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. PRAGMALINGUISTICS: THE STATE OF THE ART -- 2. PRAGMALINGUISTIC THEORY: FOUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES -- 2.1. Pragmalinguistics as a theory of instructional style -- 2.2. Pragmalinguistics as a theory of the pragmatic component of a grammar -- 2.2.1. Internal pragmatics of the utterance -- 2.2.2. External pragmatics o f the utterance -- 2.2.3. Pragmatics of the connected text -- 2.3. Pragmalinguistics as a theory of verbal influencing -- 2.3.1. Pragmalinguistic conception (A) of verbal influencing -- 2.3.2. Pragmalinguistic conception (B) of verbal influencing -- 2.4. Pragmalinguistics as a theory of verbal activity in social intercourse -- 3. EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN PRAGMALINGUISTICS AND RELATED FIELDS -- 3.1. Pragmatic aspects of the acquisition of communicative competence -- 3.2. Pragmatic determinants of speech communication -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The series PRAGMATICS & BEYOND series.