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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
