In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics.<br /> Pragmatics: <br /> encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences；<br /> provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts such as sentence and utterance, entailment, presupposition, implicature and direct and indirect speech acts；<br /> introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the co-operative principle and speech act theory； <br /> encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, e.g. advertising language, children's conversations； <br /> provides a range of activities, discussion questions, sample answers and further reading.