Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts by Weymouth, Richard Francis, 1822-1902

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Philosophy of language by Miller, Alexander 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Frege: semantic value and reference -- Frege and Russell: Sense and definite descriptions -- Sense and verificationism: logical positivism -- Scepticism about sense: (I) Quine on analyticity and translation -- Scepticism about sense (II): Kripke's Wittgenstein and the sceptical paradox -- Saving sense: responses to the sceptical paradox -- Sense, intention, and speech acts: Grice's programme -- Sense and truth: Tarski and Davidson -- Sense, world, and metaphysics.…”

A guide for the English language teacher a Malaysian perspective by Maya Khemlani David

Table of Contents: “…Political, economic and social backdrop to language teaching in Malaysia -- Ensuring teaching equates learning -- Compensating inadequacies through communicative strategies -- Discourse norms: the influence of group work -- Going beyond schema: selecting texts -- Discovering cultural norms through speech acts in texts -- Incorporating mother tongue in literacy -- Movies as peripheral teaching aids -- Sociolinguistic variables in language teaching: use of authentic data…”

Understanding pragmatics by Senft, Gunter 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Pragmatics and Philosophy: Speech Act Theory and the Theory of Conversational Implicature 2. …”

An introduction to English semantics and pragmatics by Griffiths, Patrick 1942-2012

Evolution in language studies

Table of Contents: “…Evolution in language studies -- Development of an annotation tool for reading in an online environment -- Online self-presentation and impression management (SPIM) among Malaysian tertiary level students on Facebook -- Website localisation analysis: translation and perspective -- Women's language in online communication environment -- Gender, empowerment and the digital domain: a case study of young Malaysian Indian woman entrepreneurs -- Speech acts in ESL classroom discourse -- Locale, class size and teaching experience: how they impact on students' performance -- Acquiring specialised vocabulary in a food writing course -- The variations of Dao in Malaysian mandarin: a study of grammaticalization -- The use of hedges to realize politeness in Arab EFL students' spoken discourse -- Heterogeneity and the sociolinguistic environment of Malaysian Indian literature -- Manglish cyborgs: paranoia, optimism and the cultural evolution of cyberpunk…”

Introducing english language a resource book for students by Mullany, Louise, Stockwell, Peter

Table of Contents: “…A Introduction: key basic concepts; 1 Phonetics and phonology; 2 Morphology and lexicology; 3 Semantics and pragmatics; 4 Grammatical parts; 5 Text and discourse; 6 Early language acquisition; 7 Psycholinguistics; 8 Origins of English; 9 Sociolinguistics; 10 World Englishes; 11 Stylistics; 12 Methodological paradigms; 13 Language theories; B Development: aspects of English; 1 Consonants and vowels; 2 Lexical semantics; 3 Pragmatic principles; 4 Syntax; 5 Conversation; 6 Literacy; 7 Schemas and worlds. 8 Standardisation and language change9 Language attitudes; 10 Codification; 11 Stylistic analysis; 12 Techniques and ethics; 13 Language and thought; C Exploration: investigating English language; 1 Performing accents; 2 Word plays; 3 Doing politeness; 4 Syntactic effects; 5 Texts in action; 6 Learning to read; 7 Exploring the mind; 8 Corrections; 9 Identify yourself; 10 Influencing language; 11 Exploring literature; 12 Collecting data; 13 Theory into practice; D Extension: linguistic readings; 1 Articulating masculinity (Kiesling); 2 The search for units of meaning (Sinclair). 3 The speech acts of the in-group (Cutting)4 Prefabricated expressions in spoken language (Cheshire); 5 Advertising discourse (Cook); 6 Socialisation and grammatical development (Ochs and Schieffelin); 7 Promoting perception (Field); 8 Lexical change (Smith); 9 Social relationships and social practices (Milroy and Gordon); 10 The development of World Englishes (Kirkpatrick); 11 Speech and thought as point of view (Simpson); 12 Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research (Dörnyei); 13 Researching 'real' language (Carter and Sealey)…”