Description
The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state-of-the-art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory chapter on interdisciplinarity by Jacob L. Mey. A further thirty-eight chapters cover both traditional and newer areas of pragmatic research, divided into four sections:
- Methods and modalities
- Established fields
- Pragmatics across disciplines
- Applications of pragmatic research in today窶冱 world.
With accessible, refreshing descriptions and discussions, and with a look towards future directions, this Handbook is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in pragmatics within English language and linguistics and communication studies.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Pragmatics broadly viewed: Introduction
Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen
2 Interdisciplinarity in pragmatics and linguistics
Jacob L. Mey
PART I
Methods and modalities
Data collection
3 Naturally occurring data
Andrea Golato
4 Elicited data
J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer and Maria Hasler-Barker
5 Corpora
Martin Weisser
Nonverbal communication
6 British Sign Language (BSL)
Gary Quinn
7 Gesture and pragmatics: From paralinguistic to variably linguistic
Alan Cienki
8 Paralanguage
Tim Wharton
PART II
Established fields
Pragmatics and variation
9 Variation and change: Historical pragmatics
Andreas H. Jucker and Daniela Landert
10 Variational pragmatics
Anne Barron
11 Postcolonial pragmatics
Eric A. Anchimbe and Richard W. Janney
12 Gender and sociopragmatics
Janet Holmes and Brian W. King
13 Bilingualism and multilingualism
Jasone Cenoz
Pragmatics and culture
14 Interlanguage pragmatics: A historical sketch and future directions
Naoko Taguchi
15 Intercultural pragmatics
Alessia Cogo and Juliane House
16 Identity and membership
Dorien Van de Mieroop
17 Folk pragmatics
Dennis R. Preston and Nancy Niedzielski
Linguistic pragmatics
18 Intention (including speech acts)
Jesus Navarro
19 Temporal reference
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
20 Formal and natural languages: What logic tells us about natural language
Jacques Moeschler
21 Presupposition and accommodation
Jacopo Romoli and Uli Sauerland
22 Grammaticalisation
Maria Jose Lopez-Couso and Elena Seoane
Cognition and pragmatics
23 Metarepresentation
Nicholas Allott
24 Relevance
Stavros Assimakopoulos
25 Metaphor in pragmatics
Miriam Taverniers
26 Enrichment
Alison Hall
Interactional pragmatics
27 Conversation
Hansun Zhang Waring
28 Discourse
Rodney H. Jones
29 Politeness
Dawn Archer
30 Reported speech
Isabelle Buchstaller
PART III
Pragmatics across disciplines
31 Clinical pragmatics
Louise Cummings
32 Pragmatics and neurolinguistics
Elisabeth Ahlsen
33 Doing ethnography
Dorothy Pawluch, Arthur McLuhan and William Shaffir
34 Language use in a social semiotic perspective
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
35 Linguistic pragmatics from an evolutionary perspective
Nikolaus Ritt
PART IV
Applications
36 Pragmatics and ontology
Laurent Prevot
37 Pragmatics and translation/interpreting
Nicole Baumgarten
38 Pragmatics in legal interpretation
Alan Durant and Janny H. C. Leung
39 Social media
Francisco Yus
40 Teaching pragmatics
Helen Basturkmen and Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen
Index
