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An Introduction to Pragmatics Sep. 2011- Jan. 2012 Chapter One Introduction to pragmatics Chapter Two Entailment Chapter Three Presupposition Chapter Four Co-operative principle and conversational implicature Chapter Five Adaptation theory Chapter Six Speech acts Chapter Seven Face and politeness Chapter Eight Rapport management: A framework for analysis Chapter Nine Conversation analysis Chapter Ten Deixis Chapter Eleven Making sense and context Chapter Twelve Critical discourse analysis Chapter Thirteen Pragmatic transfer in intercultural communication Chapter Fourteen Methodological issues in conducting theory-based cross-cultural research Chapter Fifteen Data collection in pragmatics research Chapter Sixteen Classroom research on interlanguage pragmatics Chapter Eighteen Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development Chapter Nineteen Appraisal Theory Chapter One Introduction to pragmatics 1.1 The historical review of pragmatics 1.2 Definitions of pragmatics 1.3 Focus of pragmatics 1.4 Criticisms of pragmatics 1.1 The historical review of pragmatics Late 1950s- early 1960s- late a960s-2000: Changes from something in the wastebasket to a flourishing area In the late 1950s, Chomsky discovered the centrality of syntax; but like the structuralists, he still regarded meaning as too messy for serious contemplation. However in the early 1960s, Katz and his collaborators began to find out how to corporate meaning into a formal linguistic theory. So in late 1960s pragmatics was henceforth on the linguistic map. Pragmatics detect the meanings beyond the scope of traditional language study. Although pragmatics is a relatively new branch of linguistics, research on it can be dated back to ancient Greece and Rome where the term pragmaticus’ is found in late Latin and pragmaticos’ in Greek, both meaning of being practical’. Modern use and current practice of pragmatics is credited to the influence of the Am