Aitchison, Jean, 1998: The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. London and New York: Routledge, 4th edn.

Bloom, Paul, 2002: How Children Learn the Meaning of Words. Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press.

Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte de, 2001: How Language Comes to Children: From Birth to Two Years, trans. M. B. DeBevoise. Cambridge [MA]: MIT Press

Chapman,S. (2000) Philosophy For Linguists,London: Routledge

Devitt,M. and Sterelny, K.  (1999)  Languageand Reality (2 nd edition), Cambridge: MIT Press.

Harnish, R. (1993) Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language,Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf

Ludlow,P. (ed.) (1997) Readings in thePhilosophy of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press

Martinich, A. P.  (ed.) (2007)  The Philosophy of Language , 5th edition,  Oxford: Oxford University Press.  [1 st edition 1985].

Morris, Michael (2007) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stainton,R.  (2000) Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language,  Ontario: Broadview.

PRAGMATICS

Ariel, Mira (2008) Pragmatics and Grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Austin, J. L. (1962) How to do Things with Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bates, Elizabeth (1976) Language and Context: The Acquisition of Pragmatics, New York: Academic Press.

Blakemore, Diane (1992) Understanding Utterances, Oxford: Blackwell.

Borg, Emma (2004) Minimal Semantics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bousfield, Derek (ed.) (2008) Impoliteness in Interaction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Brown, Penelope and Stephen Levinson (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cappelen, Herman and Ernie Lepore  (2005) Insensitive Semantics: a Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism, Oxford: Blackwell .

Carston, Robyn (2002) Thoughts and Utterances, Oxford: Blackwell.

Cummings, Louise (2005) Pragmatics, a Multidisciplinary Perspective, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Cummings, Louise (2009) Clinical Pragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cutting, Joan (2007) Pragmatics and Discourse (2nd edition), London: Routledge.

Grice, Paul (1989) Studies in the Way of Words, Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Horn, Laurence and Gregory Ward (eds) (2004) The Handbook of Pragmatics, Oxford: Blackwell

Huang, Yan (2007) Pragmatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Levinson, Stephen (1983) Pragmatics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levinson, Stephen (2000) Presumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature, Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Pre ss.

Mey, Jacob (1993) Pragmatics, An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.

Noveck, Ira and Dan Sperber (eds) (2004) Experimental Pragmatics, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Recanati, François (2004) Literal Meaning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Searle, John (1969) Speech Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sperber, Dan and Deirdre Wilson (1995) Relevance [2nd edn], Oxford: Blackwell.

Thomas, Jenny (1995) Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics, London: Longman.

E-journal: Journal of Pragmatics

Bell, Allan (1991) The Language of News Media. Oxford: Blackwell.

Bloor, Tom & Bloor, Meriel (2004) The Functional Analysis of English (2nd edition). London: Arnold.

Cook, Guy (1992) The Discourse of Advertising. London: Routledge.

Halliday, M.A.K. (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar (2nd edition). London: Edward Arnold, OR Halliday, M.A.K. & Matthiessen, Christian M.I.M. (2004) An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd edition). London: Arnold.

Halliday, M. A. K. & Hasan, Ruqaiya (1989) Language, Context and Text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Oxford: OUP.

Hodge, Robert & Kress, Gunter (1993) Language as Ideology (2nd edition). London: Routledge.

Martin, J. R. & Rose, David (2007) Working with Discourse (2nd edition) London: Continuum.

Milroy, J ames & Milro y, Lesley (1999) Authority in Language (3rd edition). London: Routledge.

Thompson, Geoff (2004) Introducing Functional Grammar (2nd edition). London: Arnold.

    Croft, W. and D.  A. Cruse (2004) Cognitive linguistics, Cambridge: CUP.

·           Cruse, D. A (1986) Lexical semantics, Cambridge: CUP

·           Cruse, D. A. (2000) Meaning in language. An Introduction to semantics and pragmatics, Oxford: OUP.

·           Dixon, R.M.W (2005[1991]) A semantic approach to English grammar, Oxford: OUP

·           Haiman, J. (1985) Natural syntax: iconicity and erosion, Cambridge: CUP.

·           Heine, B. (1997) Cognitive foundations of grammar, Oxford: OUP.

·           Hopper, P. and E.C. Traugott (2003 [1993]) Grammaticalization, Cambridge: CUP.

·           Lobner, S. (2002) Understanding semantics, New York: Hodder Arnold.

·           Lyons, J. (1977) Semantics, Cambridge: CUP

·           Traugott, E. C. and R. B. Dasher (2005) Regularity in semantic change, Cambridge: CUP.