Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Pragmatics and Rhetoric
2.1 Pragmatics
2.1.1 Origin and history
2.1.2 Definition
2.1.3 Areas of interests
2.1.4Criticism and defense
2.2 Rhetoric
2.2.1 Origin of rhetoric
2.2.2 Definition
2.2.3 Traditional rhetoric
2.2.4 Modern rhetoric
2.2.5 Interests of modern rhetoric
2.2.6 Elements of rhetoric
2.2.7 Rhetoric of or in a discourse
2.2.8 Purposes of figures of speech
2.3 Relationship between pragmatics and rhetoric
2.3.1 Prescriptive vs.descriptive and generation vs.interpretation
2.3.2 Kinds of discourse
2.3.3 Language use
2.3.4Conversation analysis and disposition
2.3.5 Questions under discussion?
2.3.6 Language production and invention
2.3.7 Intentions in communication
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Pragmatic Theories
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Deixis and presupposition
3.3 Speech act theory
3.3.1 Direct speech acts
3.3.2 Indirect speech acts
3.4 Conversational implicature
3.5 The cooperative principle (CP)
3.6 The politeness principle (PP)
3.7 Face and politeness strategies
3.8 The interest principle (IP)
3.9 The relevance theory (RT)
3.10 Summary
Chapter 4 Figures of Speech in English
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Examples and observations
4.3 Values of figures of speech
4.4 Types of figures of speech
4.5Conventional ways to the study of figure of speech and existing problems
4.6 Summary
Chapter 5 Allegory
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Definition of allegory
5.3Characteristics of allegory
5.4Categories of allegory
5.5 An illustration of allegory
5.6 Allegories as speech acts
5.6.1 Well-formedness of an allegory
5.6.2 Speech acts
5.7 Summary
Chapter 6 Analogy
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Definition of analogy
6.3 Features and functions of analogy
6.4 Examples of analogy
6.5 Relevance-theoretic interpretation of analogy
6.6 Analogy's pragmatic nature and cognitive schema
6.7Common forms of pragmatic analogy
6.8 Summary
Chapter 7 Antonomasia
7.1 Introduction
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