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A Introduction: concepts in pragmatics Context and Structure Speech Act Theory Cooperative Principle Politeness Theories Corpora and Communities Critical Discourse Analysis Intercultural Pragmatics Pragmatics and Language Learning B Development: studies in pragmatics Analysing Language in Context Using Speech Acts Understanding Implicature Analysing Politeness Analysing Markers Detecting Hidden Values Studying Intercultural Pragmatics Teaching Pragmatics 　 C Exploration: data for investigation Three Contexts Culture and Indirectness Flouting and Violating Politeness and Impoliteness Variation and Multimodal Corpora Power and Human Rights Misunderstanding and Mediation Learning Pragmatics Online D Extensions: readings Knowledge, Lexicons and Exclusion Indirectness and Miscommunication Relevance and Gender Impoliteness and Rudeness Corpora and Language Teaching Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis African Face Needs Hybrid Pragmatics and Textbooks