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.
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List 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
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Yale University Department of Linguistics. His publications include A Natural History of Negation (1989/2001) and numerous articles addressing the union (if not the intersection) of lexical semantics, negation, and neo-Gricean approaches to meaning in natural language. He is currently working on a new book, Lexical Pragmatics.
Gregory Ward is Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His extensive publications in the area of pragmatics and information structure include Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (with Betty Birner, 1998) and The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing (1988). He is also editor of a new series on language in the real word and currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America.
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