Horn L., Ward G. The Handbook of Pragmatics

Paperback. — Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 864 p. — (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics).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 ContributorsThe Domain of Pragmatics
Implicature
Laurence R. Horn
Presupposition
Jay David Atlas
Speech Acts
Jerrold SadockGregory Carlson
Deixis
Stephen C. Levinson
Definiteness and Indefiniteness
Barbara Abbott
Pragmatics and Discourse Structure
Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax
Gregory Ward and Betty Birner
Topic and Focus
Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim
Context in Dynamic Interpretation
Craige Roberts
Discourse Markers
Diane Blakemore
Discourse Coherence
Andrew Kehler
The Pragmatics of Non-sentences
Robert J. Stainton
Anaphora and the Pragmatics–Syntax Interface
Yan Huang
Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives
Susumu Kuno
The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation
Geoffrey Nunberg
Pragmatics of Language Performance
Herbert H. Clark
Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference
Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward
Pragmatics and its Interfaces
Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar
Georgia M. Green
Pragmatics and Argument Structure
Adele E. Goldberg
Pragmatics and Semantics
François Recanati
Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language
Kent Bach
Pragmatics and the Lexicon
Reinhard Blutner
Pragmatics and Intonation
Julia Hirschberg
Historical Pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Pragmatics and Language Acquisition
Eve V. Clark
Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics
Daniel Jurafsky
Pragmatics and Cognition
Relevance Theory
Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber
Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction
Robyn Carston
Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics
Gilles Fauconnier
Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions
Paul Kay
The Pragmatics of Polarity
Michael Israel
Abduction in Natural Language Understanding
Jerry R. Hobbs