Pragmatics - Paperbackby Stephen C. Levinson (Author) Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between