The Handbook of Pragmatics

Author:   Laurence Horn (Yale University) ,  Gergory Ward (Northwestern University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Pages:   864
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
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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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Author:   Laurence Horn (Yale University) ,  Gergory Ward (Northwestern University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.479kg
ISBN:  

9780631225485


ISBN 10:   063122548
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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

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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


?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


Author Information

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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