Doing pragmatics Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader friendly introduction to pragmatics. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterised the previous editions this fourth edition has been fully revised. Doing Pragmatics extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and provides students with the opportunity to do pragmatics themselves. A distinctive feature of this textbook is that virtually all the examples are taken from real world uses of language which reflect the emergent nature of communicative interaction. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory exercises and up to date real data and examples. This book provides the ideal foundation for all those studying pragmatics within English language linguistics and ELT TESOL Using and understanding language Utterances and intentions Inference and utterances Inference and lexical items Indexicality Context Being polite.