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diane blakemore: Understanding Utterances. An

Introduction to Pragmatics. Blackwell 1992

This is an introduction to pragmatics in which Relevance is taken to be the central concept.

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Laurence horn: 'Toward a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature' in Deborah Schiffrin (ed.): Meaning, Form and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications. Georgetown University Press 1984

This paper proposes an alternative approach to analyzing how implicatures arise, using two instead of four maxims.

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paul grice: Studies in the Way of Words. Harvard University Press 1989

This volume includes the collected papers of the philosopher whose ideas are considered by many to be the foundation of con­temporary pragmatics.

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Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 16,1990

There is a collection of sixteen papers, presented as a parasession within these published proceedings, on the legacy of Grice, cover­ing a wide range of issues in the analysis of meaning.

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dan sperber and deirdre wilson: Relevance. Blackwell 1986

Presented as a study of human communication, this book takes the single maxim of Relevance as the key. Arguments and illustra­tions are presented to support the contention that 'communicated information comes with a guarantee of relevance'.

Speech acts and events

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j.austin: How to Do Things with Words. (2nd edn.)

Clarendon Press 1975

The original work which introduced the concept of language use as a form of action.

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KENT bach and Robert harnish: Linguistic

Communication and Speech Acts. MIT Press 1979

Two linguists present a detailed framework for the analysis of speech acts.

john searle: Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press 1969

The best known work on the topic, with detailed discussion of both conditions and applications of the concept of a speech act.

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JOHN searle: Expression and Meaning. Studies in the

Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge University Press 1979

A collection of seven papers, including one on indirect speech acts and another on a taxonomy of illocutionary acts. These fre­quently cited papers represent a development of the ideas pre­sented earlier in Searle (1969).

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jef verschueren: What People Say They Do With Words.

Ablex 1985

This book presents a critical review of problems in speech act theory and a proposal for a different approach based on the study of linguistic action.

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Politeness and interaction

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SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA and GABRIELE KASPER:

Journal of Pragmatics 14/2 (Special Issue on politeness), 1990

This collection of six papers includes a review paper by Kasper on current research issues as well as three reports on the develop­ment of politeness behavior in children.

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penelope brown and Stephen levinson: Politeness. Some Universals of Language Usage. Cambridge University Press 1987

This is the most comprehensive book on linguistic politeness,

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offering lots of detailed discussion and illustrations from different languages.

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paul drew and john heritage (eds.): Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings. Cambridge University Press 1992

This is a collection of fifteen papers on the general topic of inter­action in work contexts (for example, news interviews, court pro­ceedings, doctor's office).

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M.DUFON, G.KASPER, S.TAKAHASHI, and N. YOSHINAGA:

'Bibliography on Linguistic Politeness' in Journal of Pragmatics 21,1994, pages 527-78

This is an extremely useful listing of published work concerned with language and politeness.

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erving goffman: Forms of Talk. University of

Pennsylvania Press 1981

This is a collection of five important papers by one of the most influential writers on language and social interaction.