Pragmatics (al-tadawiliyya) Arabic Translation by George Yule

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 Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics Regularity The pragmatics wastebasket Person deixis Spatial deixis Temporal deixis Deixis and grammar Referential and attributive uses Names and referents The role of co-text Anaphoric reference Presupposition Types of presupposition The projection problem Ordered entailments The cooperative principle Hedges Conversational implicature Generalized conversational implicatures Scalar implicatures Particularized conversational implicatures Properties of conversational implicatures Conventional implicatures Speech acts IFIDs Felicity conditions The performative hypothesis Speech act classification Direct and indirect speech acts Speech events Politeness Face wants Negative and positive face Self and say nothing Say off and on record Positive and negative politeness Strategies Pre-sequences Conversation analysis Pauses, overlaps, and backchannels Conversational style Adjacency pairs Preference structure Discourse analysis Coherence Background knowledge Cultural schemata Cross-cultural pragmatics SECTION 2 Readings SECTION 3 References SECTION 4 Glossary