In Pragmatics, the study of meaning derived from context, Jean Stilwell Peccei offers a practical introduction to this core area of linguistics. Pragmatics: encourages the reader to look at different levels of meaning within sentences； provides a basic understanding of key pragmatic concepts such as sentence and utterance, entailment, presupposition, implicature and direct and indirect speech acts； introduces two highly influential approaches to pragmatics: the co-operative principle and speech act theory； encourages the reader to apply basic analytical tools to real data, e.g. advertising language, childrens conversations； provides a range of activities, discussion questions, sample answers and further reading.