Chapter Two introduces some important theories of pragmatics, including Speech Act (Austin), Indirect Speech Act (Searle), Cooperative Principle & Conversational Implicarure(Grice), Politeness(Leech) and the concept of context.

• 第二章介绍了语用学的一些重要理论、概念，如奥斯汀的言语行为理论、塞尔的间接言语行为理论、格赖斯的合作原则和会话含义理论、礼貌原则以及语境概念，这些理论以全新的角度审视语言，对语言学习启迪很大；