Chapter 6 Pragmatics

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Meaning and speech acts, written by Keith Allen, this is a great overview of speech act theory. A few parts of this are quite advanced, but the bulk of it is accessible.
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, includes some good discussion of and bibliographies of speech act research, especially in the context of second language learning.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, quite advanced, but worth browsing specific entries, e.g. “Speech acts”, “Implicature”, “Presupposition”.
Impoliteness: Using and Understanding the Language of Offence, a comprehensive overview of impoliteness from a pragmatics perspective.
Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Politeness Research, International Review of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Cognition, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Corpus pragmatics, these are just some of the relevant journals.