This is the German translation of Stephen C. Levinson's "Pragmatics". In this textbook the author has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve some of the problems semanticists have been confronting and simplify semantic analyses. The complexity of these issues is not disguised, but the exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification.