Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse : A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English

First published in 1981, Let's Talk and Talk About It is regarded as a cornerstone of research in pragmatics, which laid new and lasting foundations for the teaching of English.Forty years on, this extensively updated version is fully tailored for the 21st century.It provides a pedagogic interactional grammar of English, designed for learners and teachers of English and textbook writers, as well as experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics.The book includes a rigorous pragmatic system through which interaction in English and other languages can be captured in a replicable way, covering pragmatically important expressions, types of talk and other interactional phenomena, as well as a ground-breaking interactional typology of speech acts.The book is also illustrated with a legion of interactional and entertaining examples, showing how the framework can be put to use.It will remain a seminal work in the field for years to come.