Preface -- pt. I. Basic Notions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Pragmatics? -- 3. Defining Pragmatics -- 4. Pragmatic Principles -- pt. II. Micropragmatics -- 5. Reference and Implicature -- 6. Speech Acts -- 7. Speech Act Verbs and Indirect Speech Acts -- 8. Speech Acts and their Classification -- pt. III. Macropragmatics -- 9. Introduction to Macropragmatics -- 10. Conversion Analysis: Basic Notions -- 11. Conversation Analysis: Part I -- 12. Conversation Analysis: Part II -- 13. Metapragmatics -- 14. Societal Pragmatics -- Notes -- References -- Index.