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. It covers a wide range of topics and will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students in pragmatics, philosophy of language, and related fields.

• Preface and Acknowledgements


• List of Symbols and Abbreviations


• The Contributors


• 1: Yan Huang: Introduction: What is Pragmatics?


• I: Schools of Thought, Foundations, and Theories


• 2: Ann Bezuidenhout: Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism


• 3: Yan Huang: Neo-Gricean Pragmatics


• 4: Deirdre Wilson: Relevance Theory


• 5: Reinhard Blutner: Formal Pragmatics


• 6: Jef Verschueren: Continental European Perspective View


• 7: Jacob L. Mey: The Sociological Foundations of Pragmatics


• Part II: Central Topics


• 8: Yan Huang: Implicature


• 9: Bart Geurts: Presupposition and Givenness


• 10: Stephen C. Levinson: Speech Acts


• 11: Jack Sidnell and N. J. Enfield: Deixis and the Interactional Foundations of Reference


• 12: Barbara Abbott: Reference


• 13: Anita Fetzer: Context


• Part III: Macro-Pragmatics and Cognition


• 14: Bruno G. Bara: Cognitive Pragmatics


• 15: Pamela R. Rollins: Developmental Pragmatics


• 16: Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr: Experimental Pragmatics


• 17: Harry Bunt: Computational Pragmatics


• 18: Louise Cummings: Clinical Pragmatics


• 19: Brigitte Stemmer: Neuropragmatics


• Part IV: Macro-Pragmatics and Society/Culture


• 20: Penelope Brown: Politeness and Impoliteness


• 21: Istvan Kecskes: Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics


• 22: César Félix-Brasdefer: Interlanguage Pragmatics


• 23: Emanuel A. Schegloff: Conversation Analysis


• Part V: Interfaces


• 24: Robyn Carston: Pragmatics and Semantics


• 25: Mira Ariel: Pragmatics and Grammar: More Pragmatics or More Grammar


• 26: Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini-Barbaresi: Pragmatics and Morphology: Morphopragmatics


• 27: Laurence R. Horn: Pragmatics and the Lexicon


• 28: Julia Hirschberg: Pragmatics and Prosody


• 29: Andreas H. Jucker: Pragmatics and Language Change: Historical Pragmatics


• 30: Gregory Ward, Betty J. Birner, and Elsi Kaiser: Pragmatics and Information Structure


• References


• Index

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.