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Book Synopsis* 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.
Trade Review“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
Table of ContentsList 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
