This book provides an introduction to the fundamental terms in the field of pragmatics. Alongside classic topics implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis the focus is on a detailed understanding of the pragmatic phenomena of the German language. The volume presents and analyses German modal particles and the 'free' word order of the German language against the backdrop of current pragmatic theories.

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Regine Eckardt, University of Konstanz, Germany.