The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (Oxford Handbooks)

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. 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. -- Inside Cover Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction: What Is Pragmatics? / Yan Huang -- Pt. I Schools Of Thought, Foundations, And Theories -- 2. Contextualism And Semantic Minimalism / Anne Bezuidenhout -- 3. Neo-gricean Pragmatics / Yan Huang -- 4. Relevance Theory / Deirdre Wilson -- 5. Formal Pragmatics / Reinhard Blutner -- 6. Continental European Perspective View / Jef Verschueren -- 7. The Sociological Foundations Of Pragmatics / Jacob L. Mey -- Pt. Ii Central Topics -- 8. Implicature / Yan Huang -- 9. Presupposition And Givenness / Bart Geurts -- 10. Speech Acts / Stephen C. Levinson -- 11. Debris And The Interactional Foundations Of Reference / N. J. Enfield -- 12. Reference / Barbara Abbott -- 13. Context / Anita Fetzer -- Pt. Iii Macro-pragmatics And Cognition -- 14. Cognitive Pragmatics / Bruno G. Bara -- 15. Developmental Pragmatics / Pamela R. Rollins -- 16. Experimental Pragmatics / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- 17. Computational Pragmatics / Harry Bunt -- 18. Clinical Pragmatics / Louise Cummings -- 19. Neuropragmatics / Brigitte Stemmer -- Pt. Iv Macro-pragmatics And Society/culture -- 20. Politeness And Impoliteness / Penelope Brown -- 21. Cross-cultural And Intercultural Pragmatics / Istvan Kecskes -- 22. Interlanguage Pragmatics / J. Cesar Felix-brasdefer -- 23. Conversation Analysis / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- Pt. V Interfaces -- 24. Pragmatics And Semantics / Robyn Carston -- 25. Pragmatics And Grammar: More Pragmatics Or More Grammar / Mira Ariel -- 26. Pragmatics And Morphology: Morphopragmatics / Lavinia Merlini-barbaresi -- 27. Pragmatics And The Lexicon / Laurence R. Horn -- 28. Pragmatics And Prosody / Julia Hirschberg -- 29. Pragmatics And Language Change: Historical Pragmatics / Andreas H. Jucker -- 30. Pragmatics And Information Structure / Elsi Kaiser. Edited By Yan Huang. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 591-697) And Index. 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. It covers a wide range of topics and will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students in pragmatics, philosophy of language, and related fields.