The Handbook of Pragmatics

by Horn, Laurence; Ward, Gergory

• ISBN13: 9780631225485
• ISBN10: 063122548X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of original articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. The 32 articles, written by leading scholars, 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. This Handbook is a valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language. It will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of pragmatics with syntax, semantics, lexicon, philosophy of language, information theory, and cognitive psychology. The extensive bibliography serves as a self-contained research tool for those working in the general area of pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Introduction	xi
I. The Domain of Pragmatics	1	(150)
Implicature	3	(26)
Laurence R. Horn
Presupposition	29	(24)
Jay David Atlas
Speech Acts	53	(21)
Jerrold Sadock
Reference	74	(23)
Gregory Carlson
Deixis	97	(25)
Stephen C. Levinson
Definiteness and Indefiniteness	122	(29)
Barbara Abbott
II. Pragmatics and Discourse Structure	151	(254)
Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax	153	(22)
Gregory Ward
Betty Birner
Topic and Focus	175	(22)
Jeanette K. Gundel
Thorstein Fretheim
Context in Dynamic Interpretation	197	(24)
Craige Roberts
Discourse Markers	221	(20)
Diane Blakemore
Discourse Coherence	241	(25)
Andrew Kehler
The Pragmatics of Non-sentences	266	(22)
Robert J. Stainton
Anaphora and the Pragmatics--Syntax Interface	288	(27)
Yan Huang
Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives	315	(29)
Susumu Kuno
The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation	344	(21)
Geoffrey Nunberg
Pragmatics of Language Performance	365	(18)
Herbert H. Clark
Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference	383	(22)
Andrew Kehler
Gregory Ward
III. Pragmatics and its Interfaces	405	(200)
Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar	407	(20)
Georgia M. Green
Pragmatics and Argument Structure	427	(15)
Adele E. Goldberg
Pragmatics and Semantics	442	(21)
Francois Recanati
Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language	463	(25)
Kent Bach
Pragmatics and the Lexicon	488	(27)
Reinhard Blutner
Pragmatics and Intonation	515	(23)
Julia Hirschberg
Historical Pragmatics	538	(24)
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Pragmatics and Language Acquisition	562	(16)
Eve V. Clark
Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics	578	(27)
Daniel Jurafsky
IV. Pragmatics and Cognition	605	(137)
Relevance Theory	607	(26)
Deirdre Wilson
Dan Sperber
Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction	633	(24)
Robyn Carston
Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics	657	(18)
Gilles Fauconnier
Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions	675	(26)
Paul Kay
The Pragmatics of Polarity	701	(23)
Michael Israel
Abduction in Natural Language Understanding	724	(18)
Jerry R. Hobbs
Bibliography	742	(78)
Index	820