The Handbook of Pragmatics

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-631-22547-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 864 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned 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.

Zielgruppe

advanced undergraduates, graduates, researchers and faculty in pragmatics and semantics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horn, Laurence R.

Ward, Gregory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Laurence R. Horn (Yale University) And Gregory Ward (Northwestern University).

Part I: The Domain Of Pragmatics:

1. Implicature: Laurence R. Horn (Yale University).

2. Presupposition: Jay David Atlas (Pomona College).

3. Speech Acts: Jerrold Sadock (University Of Chicago).

4. Reference: Gregory Carlson (University Of Rochester).

5. Deixis: Stephen C. Levinson (MPI Nijmegen).

6. Definiteness And Indefiniteness: Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University).

Part II: Pragmatics And Discourse Structure:

7. Information Structure And Noncanonical Syntax: Betty Birner (Northern Illinois University) And Gregory Ward (Northwestern University).

8. Topic And Focus: Jeanette Gundel (University Of Minnesota) And Thorstein Fretheim (Norwegian University Of Science And Technology, Trondheim).

9. Context In Dynamic Interpretation: Craige Roberts (Ohio State University).

10. Discourse Markers: Diane Blakemore (University Of Salford).

11. Discourse Coherence: Andy Kehler (University Of California, San Diego).

12. The Pragmatics Of Non-Sentences: Rob Stainton (Carleton University).

13. Anaphora And The Pragmatics-Syntax Interface: Yan Huang (University Of Reading).

14. Empathy And Direct Discourse Perspectives: Susumu Kuno (Harvard University).

15. Deferred Interpretation: Geoff Nunberg (Stanford University).

16. Pragmatics Of Language Performance: Herb Clark (Stanford University).

17. Constraints On Ellipsis And Event Reference: Andy Kehler (University Of California, San Deigo) And Gregory Ward (Northwestern University).

Part III: Pragmatics And Its Interfaces:

18. Some Interactions Of Pragmatics And Syntax: Georgia Green (University Of Illinois).

19. Pragmatics And Argument Structure: Adele Goldberg (University Of Illinois).

20. Pragmatics And Semantics: Francois Récanati (Institute Jean Nicod (CREA)).

21. Pragmatics And The Philosophy Of Language: Kent Bach (San Francisco State University).

22. Pragmatics And The Lexicon: Reinhard Blutner (Humboldt University, Berlin).

23. Pragmatics And Intonation: Julia Hirschberg (AT-T Labs-Research).

24. Historical Pragmatics: Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University).

25. Pragmatics And Language Acquisition: Eve Clark (Stanford University).

26. Pragmatics And Computational Linguistics: Daniel Jurafsky (University Of Colorado).

Part IV: Pragmatics And Cognition:

27. Relevance Theory: Deirdre Wilson (University College London) And Dan Sperber (CREA, Paris).

28. Relevance Theory And The Saying/Implicating Distinction: Robyn Carston (University College London).

29. Pragmatics And Cognitive Linguistics: Gilles Fauconnier (University Of California, San Diego).

30. Pragmatic Aspects Of Grammatical Constructions: Paul Kay (University Of California, Berkeley).

31. The Pragmatics Of Polarity: Michael Israel (University Of Maryland).

32. Abductive Reasoning And Non-Monotonic Inference: Jerry Hobbs (SRI International).

References.

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at Yale University. His publications include A Natural History of Negation (1989) and numerous articles on semantics and pragmatics. He has been the series editor for the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series since 1995.
Gregory Ward is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His many 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 currently Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America.