Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She is author or editor of many books, including Pragmatic Disorders, Clinical Linguistics, Clinical Pragmatics, The Cambridge Handbook of Communication Disorders, Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective and The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia. She is also Editor of the Routledge Research in Speech-Language Pathology book series.

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Speech acts

1.1 Introduction

1.2 How to realise a speech act

1.3 A new approach to meaning

1.4 Happy and unhappy performatives

1.5 Explicit and implicit performatives

1.6 Saying and doing

1.7 Searle on speech acts

1.8 Indirect speech acts

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Chapter 2: Implicatures

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Grice and the cooperative principle

2.3 The cooperative principle and implicatures

2.4 Types of implicature

2.5 Properties of implicatures

2.6 Relevance theory

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Chapter 3: Presuppositions

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The economic rationale for presupposition

3.3 Presupposition triggers

3.4 Properties of presuppositions

3.5 Presuppositions in the real world

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Chapter 4: Deixis

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Person and social deixis

4.3 Place deixis

4.4 Time deixis

4.5 Discourse deixis

4.6 Anaphora

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Chapter 5: Figurative language

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Idioms

5.3 Metaphors

5.4 Irony

5.5 Hyperbole

5.6 Proverbs

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Chapter 6: Politeness

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Brown and Levinson on politeness

6.3 Politeness and face in clinical settings

6.4 Criticisms of Brown and Levinson

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Chapter 7: Topic management

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Topic management in clinical settings

7.2.1 Topic selection

7.2.2 Topic introduction

7.2.3 Topic development

7.2.4 Topic termination

7.3 Analysing topic management in conversation

7.4 Analysing topic management in narration

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Chapter 8: Clinical pragmatics

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The communication cycle

8.3 Cognition and the communication cycle

8.4 Theory of mind

8.5 Executive function

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Glossary

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Index

Appendix