The handbook of pragmatics

The handbook of pragmatics / edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward.

This collection of articles outlines the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. The 33 articles provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Horn, Lawrence, Ward, Gregory
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Series:Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
Subjects:
Pragmatics.
pragmatics.
Pragmatics
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The domain of pragmatics
  • pt. 2. Pragmatics and discourse structure
  • pt. 3. Pragmatics and its interfaces
  • pt. 4 Pragmatics and cognition.
  • Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; I: The Domain of Pragmatics; 1. Implicature; 2. Presupposition; 3. Speech Acts; 4. Reference; 5. Deixis; 6. Definiteness and Indefiniteness; II: Pragmatics and Discourse Structure; 7. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax; 8. Topic and Focus; 9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation; 10. Discourse Markers; 11. Discourse Coherence; 12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences; 13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics-Syntax Interface; 14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives; 15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation.
  • 16. Pragmatics of Language Performance17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference; III: Pragmatics and its Interfaces; 18. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar; 19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure; 20. Pragmatics and Semantics; 21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language; 22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon; 23. Pragmatics and Intonation; 24. Historical Pragmatics; 25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition; 26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics.

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