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This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure.
The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.
List of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Symbols and Abbreviations
- The Contributors
- 1: Yan Huang: Introduction: What is Pragmatics?
- I: Schools of Thought, Foundations, and Theories
- 2: Ann Bezuidenhout: Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism
- 3: Yan Huang: Neo-Gricean Pragmatics
- 4: Deirdre Wilson: Relevance Theory
- 5: Reinhard Blutner: Formal Pragmatics
- 6: Jef Verschueren: Continental European Perspective View
- 7: Jacob L. Mey: The Sociological Foundations of Pragmatics
- Part II: Central Topics
- 8: Yan Huang: Implicature
- 9: Bart Geurts: Presupposition and Givenness
- 10: Stephen C. Levinson: Speech Acts
- 11: Jack Sidnell and N. J. Enfield: Deixis and the Interactional Foundations of Reference
- 12: Barbara Abbott: Reference
- 13: Anita Fetzer: Context
- Part III: Macro-Pragmatics and Cognition
- 14: Bruno G. Bara: Cognitive Pragmatics
- 15: Pamela R. Rollins: Developmental Pragmatics
- 16: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr: Experimental Pragmatics
- 17: Harry Bunt: Computational Pragmatics
- 18: Louise Cummings: Clinical Pragmatics
- 19: Brigitte Stemmer: Neuropragmatics
- Part IV: Macro-Pragmatics and Society/Culture
- 20: Penelope Brown: Politeness and Impoliteness
- 21: Istvan Kecskes: Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics
- 22: César Félix-Brasdefer: Interlanguage Pragmatics
- 23: Emanuel A. Schegloff: Conversation Analysis
- Part V: Interfaces
- 24: Robyn Carston: Pragmatics and Semantics
- 25: Mira Ariel: Pragmatics and Grammar: More Pragmatics or More Grammar
- 26: Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini-Barbaresi: Pragmatics and Morphology: Morphopragmatics
- 27: Laurence R. Horn: Pragmatics and the Lexicon
- 28: Julia Hirschberg: Pragmatics and Prosody
- 29: Andreas H. Jucker: Pragmatics and Language Change: Historical Pragmatics
- 30: Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, and Elsi Kaiser: Pragmatics and Information Structure
- References
- Index
About the author
Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has previously held positions at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He is the author of Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (2000), Pragmatics (2007; 2nd edition 2014) and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (2012; paperback 2014), all published by OUP, as well as of numerous articles and reviews in leading international journals.
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This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. It covers a wide range of topics and will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students in pragmatics, philosophy of language, and related fields.
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