Overview

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.

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Author:   Yan Huang (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Auckland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.365kg
ISBN:  

9780199697960

ISBN 10:   0199697965
Pages:   742
Publication Date:   26 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 vs semantic minimalism 3: Yan Huang: Neo-Gricean pragmatics 4: Deirdre Wilson: Relevance theory 5: Reinhard Blutner: Formal pragmatics: Optimality-theoretic, game-theoretic, and decision-theoretic pragmatics 6: Jef Verschueren: European Continental perspective view 7: Jacob L. Mey: Sociological foundations 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 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 26: Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini-Barbaresi: Pragmatics and morphology: Morphopragmatics 27: Laurence R. Horn: Pragmatics and the lexicon: Lexical pragmatics 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

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the handbook very successful in promoting recent novel ideas, particularly those that arise from an interdisciplinary approach to central issues in pragmatics. * Sherry Yong Chen, Linguist List *

Author Information

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has previously held positions at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading. He is the author of Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (2000), Pragmatics (2007; 2nd edition 2014) and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (2012; paperback 2014), all published by OUP, as well as of numerous articles and reviews in leading international journals.

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