The Handbook of Pragmatics
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition December 2005
864 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
(Northwestern University).
Part I: The Domain of Pragmatics.
Part II: Pragmatics and Discourse Structure.
Part III: Pragmatics and Its Interfaces.
Part IV: Pragmatics and Cognition.
References.
Index.
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
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.