Pragmatics and the English Language, Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2014), 316 pp., ISBN: 9780230551732

Pragmatics and the English Language is a textbook in Palgrave Macmillan's Perspectives on the English Language series designed to provide advanced students of the English language and linguistics with an in-depth understanding of the field. The textbook, co-authored by two eminent scholars in pragmatics, Jonathan Culpeper and Michael Haugh, more than lives up to these expectations. Not only does it offer a remarkably well-written, up-to-date and comprehensive overview of pragmatic research today, it is also ground-breaking in a number of ways.