●Preface to the series
●Acknowledgements
●Introduction: The pragmatic perspective
●1. Pragmatics and its formative traditions
●2. Pragmatics as a reitory of interesting topics
●3. The problem of delimitation
●4. On dimensions,perspectives,methodology,and evidence
●5. A functional perspective on language
●Adaptability
●1. Introduction: The pragmatic perspective
●2. Biological adaptability and language
●2.1 The adaptive emergence of language
●2.2 The adaptive functioning of language
●3. So-interactive adaptability and language use
●3.1 An adaptability theory of pragmatics
●3.2 Applications of an adaptability perspective
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