ABSTRACT
This chapter provides data that fits their definition of Folk Pragmatics (FP) from five areas: indirectness, implicature, indexicality, appropriateness, and politeness. The use of linguistic expressions to index or point to social groups is one of the major interests of sociolinguistics and is the one that perhaps overlaps most with pragmatic concerns. And the extended notion of indexicality that involves the transfer of person characteristics to linguistic expression is frequently touched on in folk accounts. Folk comments on pragmatic topics may be gleaned from any media or popular culture source, and one may search as well the growing electronic corpora now available, although, as with free conversational data, the incidence of folk pragmatic commentary may be sparse. Folk linguistics (FL) and therefore FP data are widely available; sit around and listen to conversations in public, and the chances of language arising as a topic are very good.
