The Oxford handbook of pragmatics / edited by Yan Huang

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: what is pragmatics? -- Part 1: Schools of thought, foundations, and theories -- 2.Contextualism and semantic minimalism -- 3.Neo-Gricean pragmatics -- 4.Relevance theory -- 5.Formal pragmatics -- 6.Continental European perspective view -- 7.The sociological foundations of pragmatics -- Part 2: Central topics -- 8.Implicature -- 9.Presupposition and givenness -- 10.Speech acts -- 11.Deixis and the Interactional Foundations of Reference -- 12.Reference -- 13.Context -- Part 3: Macro-pragmatics and cognition -- 14.Cognitive pragmatics -- 15.Developmental pragmatics -- 16.Experimental pragmatics -- 17.Computational pragmatics -- 18.Clinical pragmatics -- 19.Neuropragmatics -- Part 4: Macro-pragmatics and society/culture -- 20.Politeness and impoliteness -- 21.Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics -- 22.Interlanguage pragmatics -- 23.Conversation analysis -- Part 5: Interfaces -- 24.Pragmatics and semantics -- 25.Pragmatics and grammar: more pragmatics or more grammar -- 26.Pragmatics and morphology: morphopragmatics -- 27.Pragmatics and the lexicon -- 28.Pragmatics and prosody -- 29.Pragmatics and language change: historical pragmatics -- 30.Pragmatics and information structure.

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. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.