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The Handbook of Pragmatics

Laurence Horn (Edited by), LR Horn (Author), Gergory Ward (Edited by)

9780631225485, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2005

864 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 4.6 cm, 1.479 kg

“This outstanding and far-ranging compendium comprises 32 articles that trace the contours of the field of pragmatics… Overall, this is an invaluable, comprehensive, and accessible volume that covers the broad range of pragmatic study embedded in cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of language and communication. Highly recommended.” Choice

“The Handbook of Pragmatics presents a stunning view of the range of research enterprises and programs of those who have taken linguistic pragmatics 'out of the wastebasket'. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have demonstrated by their selections and groupings an uncanny understanding of the coherence of this field and their book will stand as a landmark in linguistics for a long time to come.” Ellen F. Prince, University of Pennsylvania

"It takes erudition, vision, and good taste to compile a good handbook of any field, even more so in the notoriously unruly field of pragmatics. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have all of these. The editors have gathered together an excellent array of contributors to give us a handbook that will prove eminently useful to scholars and students within and outside pragmatics. Readers will find in it a reliable guide to the main pragmatic questions of the last three decades, which is insightful, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible." Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University


"It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that this is a stunning collection of essays, written by a cadre of the field's best. Quality: superb. Quantity: vast. Relation: everything there is that's relevant to pragmatics. Manner: as clear as it gets!" Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University

"All in all, the Handbook of Pragmatics represents a broad spectrum of interests ... The collection's value is enhanced by an excellent "Introduction" from the joint hands of the editors, Larry Horn and Gregory Ward ... The book has been superbly produced, and the articles read generally very well." Intercultural Pragmatics

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.

  • Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics.
  • Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.
  • Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science.
  • Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

List of Contributors viii

Introduction xi

I The Domain of Pragmatics 1

1. Implicature 3
Laurence R. Horn

2. Presupposition 29
Jay David Atlas

3. Speech Acts 53
Jerrold Sadock

4. Reference 74
Gregory Carlson

5. Deixis 97
Stephen C. Levinson

6. Definiteness and Indefiniteness 122
Barbara Abbott

II Pragmatics and Discourse Structure 151

7. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax 153
Gregory Ward and Betty Birner

8. Topic and Focus 175
Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim

9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation 197
Craige Roberts

10. Discourse Markers 221
Diane Blakemore

11. Discourse Coherence 241
Andrew Kehler

12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences 266
Robert J. Stainton

13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics–Syntax Interface 288
Yan Huang

14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives 315
Susumu Kuno

15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation 344
Geoffrey Nunberg

16. Pragmatics of Language Performance 365
Herbert H. Clark

17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference 383
Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward

III Pragmatics and its Interfaces 405

18. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar 407
Georgia M. Green

19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure 427
Adele E. Goldberg

20. Pragmatics and Semantics 442
François Recanati

21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language 463
Kent Bach

22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon 488
Reinhard Blutner

23. Pragmatics and Intonation 515
Julia Hirschberg

24. Historical Pragmatics 538
Elizabeth Closs Traugott

25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition 562
Eve V. Clark

26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics 578
Daniel Jurafsky

IV Pragmatics and Cognition 605

27. Relevance Theory 607
Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber

28. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction 633
Robyn Carston

29. Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 657
Gilles Fauconnier

30. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions 675
Paul Kay

31. The Pragmatics of Polarity 701
Michael Israel

32. Abduction in Natural Language Understanding 724
Jerry R. Hobbs

Bibliography 742

Index 820

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]
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