Bublitz Wolfram, Norrick Neal R. (Editors). Foundations of Pragmatics

De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — xiii, 710 pages. — (Handbooks of Pragmatics 1). — ISBN: 978-3-11-021426-0.Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories as well as concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The articles provide both state of the art reviews and critical evaluations of research in pragmatics. Topics are thus not only considered within their scholarly context but are also critically evaluated from current perspectives.Introduction: the burgeoning field of pragmatics
Conceptual foundations
Pragmatics as a linguistic concept
Micropragmatics and macropragmatics
Pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics
Metapragmatics
Theoretical foundations
The rise of pragmatics: a historiographic overview
Semiotic foundations of pragmatics
Pragmatics in modern philosophy of language
Foundations of pragmatics in functional linguistics
Foundations: ethnomethodology and Erving Goffman
Pragmatics in Habermas’ Critical Social Theory
Key topics in pragmatic description
Deixis and indexicality
Reference and anaphora
Speech acts
Types of inference: entailment, presupposition, and implicature
The place of pragmatics in the description of discourse
Pragmatics and grammar
Pragmatics and semantics
Pragmatics and prosody: prosody as social action
Pragmatics and literature
Methods and tools
Approaching the data of pragmatics
Experimental pragmatics
Corpus-based pragmatics I: qualitative studies
Corpus-based pragmatics II: quantitative studies
The transcription of face-to-face interaction