The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

by Yan Huang (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191065224
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	01/26/2017
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has previously held positions at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He is the author of Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (2000), Pragmatics (2007; 2nd edition 2014) and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (2012; paperback 2014), all published by OUP, as well as of numerous articles and reviews in leading international journals.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements
List of symbols and abbreviations
The contributors
1. Introduction: What is pragmatics?, Yan Huang
I: Schools of thought, foundations, and theories
2. Contextualism vs semantic minimalism, Ann Bezuidenhout
3. Neo-Gricean pragmatics, Yan Huang
4. Relevance theory, Deirdre Wilson
5. Formal pragmatics: Optimality-theoretic, game-theoretic, and decision-theoretic pragmatics, Reinhard Blutner
6. European Continental perspective view, Jef Verschueren
7. Sociological foundations, Jacob L. Mey
Part II: Central topics
8. Implicature, Yan Huang
9. Presupposition and givenness, Bart Geurts
10. Speech acts, Stephen C. Levinson
11. Deixis, Jack Sidnell and N. J. Enfield
12. Reference, Barbara Abbott
13. Context, Anita Fetzer
Part 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
Part IV: Macro-pragmatics and society/culture
20. Politeness and impoliteness, Penelope Brown
21. Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics, Istvan Kecskes
22. Interlanguage pragmatics, Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
23. Conversation analysis, Emanuel A. Schegloff
Part V: Interfaces
24. Pragmatics and semantics, Robyn Carston
25. Pragmatics and grammar, Mira Ariel
26. Pragmatics and morphology: Morphopragmatics, Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini-Barbaresi
27. Pragmatics and the lexicon: Lexical pragmatics, Laurence R. Horn
28. Pragmatics and prosody, Julia Hirschberg
29. Pragmatics and language change: Historical pragmatics, Andreas H. Jucker
30. Pragmatics and information structure, Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, and Elsi Kaiser
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The volume is edited by Yang Huang, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. Huang is a renowned scholar in the field of pragmatics and has published extensively on various topics; he is best known for his work on anaphora and related phenomena at the syntax-pragmatics interface ... The majority of the contributors are pioneers in the respective sub-discipline, and many have devoted years of research to the contributed topic. In fact, some contributors play a central role in the development of a pragmatic theory, e.g. Deirdre Wilson on Relevance Theory, Penelope Brown on the face-saving model of politeness, and Laurence R. Horn on the neo-Gricean lexical pragmatic theory, to just name a few. The expertise of the contributors certainly sets high expectations and speaks quite in favour of the overall quality of this edited volume." —Linguist List

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