Full Description
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.
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