Pragmatics (al-tadawiliyya) Arabic Translation (Oxford Introductions to Language Study)

This is Qussay Al-Attabi's excellent Arabic translation of George Yule's textbook. The book is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.Subjects include:Syntax, semantics, and pragmaticsRegularityThe pragmatics wastebasketPerson deixisSpatial deixisTemporal deixisDeixis and grammarReferential and attributive usesNames and referentsThe role of co-textAnaphoric referencePresuppositionTypes of presuppositionThe projection problemOrdered entailmentsThe cooperative principleHedgesConversational implicatureGeneralized conversational implicaturesScalar implicaturesParticularized conversational implicaturesProperties of conversational implicaturesConventional implicaturesSpeech actsIFIDsFelicity conditionsThe performative hypothesisSpeech act classificationDirect and indirect speech actsSpeech eventsPolitenessFace wantsNegative and positive faceSelf and other: say nothingSay something: off and on recordPositive and negative politenessStrategiesPre-sequencesConversation analysisPauses, overlaps, and backchannelsConversational styleAdjacency pairsPreference structureDiscourse analysisCoherenceBackground knowledgeCultural schemataCross-cultural pragmaticsSECTION 2ReadingsSECTION 3ReferencesSECTION 4Glossary