Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and indexes.
I. CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO PRAGMATICS. 1. Conceptual Foundations of the Pragmatic Perspective --- 2. Structural Approaches to Pragmatics --- 3. Structural Pragmatics: Managing Conversations --- 4. Functional Approaches to Communication --- 5. Contextual Approaches to Communication ---- II. AN INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN COMMUNICATION. 6. An Integrated Perspective on Human Communication ---- III. COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT. 7. Communicative Development --- 8. Pragmatic Approaches to Interpersonal Communication --- 9. Educational Communication: A Pragmatic Perspective.
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This book attempts to outline a descriptively adequate basis for the study of human communication. It does so by advocating a pragmatic approach to communication, an approach based on the study of language use in context. This approach provides a basis for integrating the study of verbal communication across diverse settings, tasks, and participants. In addition, this approach may provide a basis for studying nonverbal communication as well ... -- from Preface (p. xi).