Pragmatics an Advanced Resource Book for StudentsDawn Archer, Karin Aijmer and Anne Wichmann

The Routledge Applied Linguistics series offers comprehensive textbooks designed to support students and researchers engaged in advanced study of English language and applied linguistics.

Each volume is structured around three main sections that guide readers in exploring and deepening their understanding of key themes in the field:

• Section A: Introduction – defines essential terms and concepts while strengthening analytical skills through practical activities.

• Section B: Extension – presents influential articles, situates them within the field, and examines their impact on research and theory.

• Section C: Exploration – builds on earlier sections by providing tasks based on additional material, encouraging readers to interact more deeply with the content and develop their own research perspectives.

Across the book, topics are continually revisited, expanded, connected, and critically examined, with tasks and follow-up questions reinforcing the reader’s understanding.

Pragmatics:

• presents a comprehensive overview of pragmatics from multiple perspectives and includes readings from leading scholars such as Geoffrey Leech, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Kohnen, Joan Manes, and Nessa Wolfson;

• covers a wide array of themes, including speech acts, pragmatic markers, implicature, methods in pragmatic research, facework, politeness, and prosody;

• investigates the social and cultural contexts in which pragmatic phenomena arise, such as cross-cultural pragmatics (silence, indirectness, address forms, cultural scripts) and the relationship between pragmatics and power (courtrooms, police interactions, political interviews, doctor-patient communication);

• draws on numerous corpora to provide illustrative examples and hands-on exploratory activities;

• includes access to a companion website offering additional activities, datasets, guidance on corpus-based research including creating a corpus with CMC and further reading recommendations.

Written by experienced teachers and researchers, Pragmatics is an indispensable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics.