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:	9780198826774
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2019
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	752
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.50(d)

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 AcknowledgementsList of Symbols and AbbreviationsThe Contributors1. Introduction: What is Pragmatics?, Yan HuangI: Schools of Thought, Foundations, and Theories2. Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism, Ann Bezuidenhout3. Neo-Gricean Pragmatics, Yan Huang4. Relevance Theory, Deirdre Wilson5. Formal Pragmatics, Reinhard Blutner6. Continental European Perspective View, Jef Verschueren7. The Sociological Foundations of Pragmatics, Jacob L. MeyPart II: Central Topics8. Implicature, Yan Huang9. Presupposition and Givenness, Bart Geurts10. Speech Acts, Stephen C. Levinson11. Deixis and the Interactional Foundations of Reference, Jack Sidnell and N. J. Enfield12. Reference, Barbara Abbott13. Context, Anita FetzerPart III: Macro-Pragmatics and Cognition14. Cognitive Pragmatics, Bruno G. Bara15. Developmental Pragmatics, Pamela R. Rollins16. Experimental Pragmatics, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr17. Computational Pragmatics, Harry Bunt18. Clinical Pragmatics, Louise Cummings19. Neuropragmatics, Brigitte StemmerPart IV: Macro-Pragmatics and Society/Culture20. Politeness and Impoliteness, Penelope Brown21. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Istvan Kecskes22. Interlanguage Pragmatics, Cesar Felix-Brasdefer23. Conversation Analysis, Emanuel A. SchegloffPart V: Interfaces24. Pragmatics and Semantics, Robyn Carston25. Pragmatics and Grammar: More Pragmatics or More Grammar, Mira Ariel26. Pragmatics and Morphology: Morphopragmatics, Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini-Barbaresi27. Pragmatics and the Lexicon, Laurence R. Horn28. Pragmatics and Prosody, Julia Hirschberg29. Pragmatics and Language Change: Historical Pragmatics, Andreas H. Jucker30. Pragmatics and Information Structure, Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, and Elsi KaiserReferencesIndex

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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