The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook is a one-stop resource for today's research and the many theoretical debates.

Keith Allan (Edited by), Kasia M. Jaszczolt (Edited by)

9781107558670, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 May 2015

788 pages, 14 b/w illus.
24.4 x 16.9 x 4 cm, 1.3 kg

'… bold, innovative, up-to-date and comprehensive … a must-have for the professional, the librarian and the interested bystander alike!' Jacob L. Mey, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.

1. Introduction: pragmatic objects and pragmatic methods Kasia M. Jaszczolt and Keith Allan
Part I. Problems and Theories: 2. Research paradigms in pragmatics Mira Ariel
3. Saying, meaning, and implicating Kent Bach
4. Implying and inferring Laurence R. Horn
5. Speaker intentions and intentionality Michael Haugh and Kasia M. Jaszczolt
6. Context and content: pragmatics in two-dimensional semantics Berit Brogaard
7. Contextualism: some varieties François Recanati
8. The psychology of utterance processing: context vs salience Rachel Giora
9. Sentences, utterances, and speech acts Mikhail Kissine
10. Pragmatics in update semantics Henk Zeevat
11. The normative dimension of discourse Jaroslav Peregrin
12. Pragmatics in the (English) lexicon Keith Allan
13. Conversational interaction Michael Haugh
14. Empirical investigations and pragmatic theorising Napoleon Katsos
Part II. Phenomena and Applications: 15. Referring in discourse Arthur Sullivan
16. Propositional attitude reports: pragmatic aspects Kasia M. Jaszczolt
17. Presupposition and accommodation in discourse Rob van der Sandt
18. Negation Jay David Atlas
19. Connectives Caterina Mauri and Johan van der Auwera
20. Spatial reference in discourse Luna Filipovi?
21. Temporal reference in discourse Louis de Saussure
22. Textual coherence as a pragmatic phenomenon Anita Fetzer
23. Metaphor and the literal/nonliteral distinction Robyn Carston
Part III. Interfaces and the Delimitation of Pragmatics: 24. Pragmatics in the history of linguistic thought Andreas H. Jucker
25. Semantics without pragmatics? Emma Borg
26. The syntax/pragmatics interface Ruth Kempson
27. Pragmatics and language change Elizabeth Closs Traugott
28. Pragmatics and prosody Tim Wharton
29. Pragmatics and information structure Jeanette K. Gundel
30. Sociopragmatics and cross-cultural and intercultural studies Istvan Kecskes
31. Politeness and pragmatics Marina Terkourafi.

Subject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG]