Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state of the art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory paper on interdisciplinarity by Jacob L. Mey. A further thirty-eight chapters cover both traditional and newer areas of pragmatic research, divided into four sections:

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• methods and modalities








• established fields








• pragmatics across disciplines








• applications of pragmatic research in today?s world.

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With accessible, refreshing descriptions and discussions and with a look towards future directions, this Handbook is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in pragmatics within English language and linguistics and communication studies.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics provides a state-of-the-art overview of the wide breadth of research in pragmatics. An introductory section outlines a brief history, the main issues and key approaches and perspectives in the field, followed by a thought-provoking introductory chapter on interdisciplinarity by Jacob L. Mey. A further thirty-eight chapters cover both traditional and newer areas of pragmatic research, divided into four sections:

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• Methods and modalities








• Established fields








• Pragmatics across disciplines








• Applications of pragmatic research in today?s world.

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With accessible, refreshing descriptions and discussions, and with a look towards future directions, this Handbook is an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in pragmatics within English language and linguistics and communication studies.

"This handbook represents a unique and innovative contribution to the state-of-the-art in pragmatic study. It sets a critical agenda for conceptualisations of the discipline in all its complexity with admirable clarity. It is an ideal and comprehensive companion for those interested in an exciting field that has seen an explosion of growth and interdisciplinary variegation in recent years."

- Brian Clancy, University of Limerick, Ireland

"To conclude, RHP, which brings together experts in pragmatics presenting traditional issues, current trends and developments, and also possible future directions in pragmatic research, is not only about the pragmatics of yesterday and today, but also about the pragmatics of tomorrow. This handbook will definitely give a helping hand to those who want to be familiar with both established domains and to keep abreast of new and prom-ising areas of pragmatic research. Both old and new hands in pragmatics will find this handbook accessible, authoritative and valuable. RHP has convincingly shown that prag-matics can be a very diverse, promising area of knowledge full of vitality, permeating numerous corners of human interaction, cognition and sociality. It may be no exaggera-tion to say that where there is life, there is pragmatics. Ultimately, we may find that pragmatics is a way with language, a way with life and a way with lifeworlds."

- Chaoqun Xie, College of Foreign Languages, Fujian Normal University, China, Discourse Studies

Table of Contents:

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsContributors1. Pragmatics Broadly Viewed: Introduction Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen2. Interdisciplinarity in Pragmatics and LinguisticsJacob L. Mey?Part I: Methods and Modalities Data collection 3. Naturally Occurring Data Andrea Golato4. Elicited DataJ. César Félix-Brasdefer and Maria Hasler-Barker 5. CorporaMartin WeisserNon-verbal communication 6. British Sign Language (BSL) Gary Quinn7. Gesture and Pragmatics: From Paralinguistic to Variably LinguisticAlan Cienki8. ParalanguageTim Wharton?Part II: Established fields Pragmatics and variation 9. Variation and Change: Historical Pragmatics Andreas H. Jucker and Daniela Landert 10. Variational Pragmatics Anne Barron11. Postcolonial PragmaticsEric A. Anchimbe and Richard W. Janney 12. Gender and SociopragmaticsJanet Holmes and Brian King 13. Bilingualism and MultilingualismJasone CenozPragmatics and culture 14. Interlanguage Pragmatics: A Historical Sketch and Future Directions Naoko Taguchi15. Intercultural Pragmatics Alessia Cogo and Juliane House16. Identity and Membership Dorien Van De Mieroop17. Folk PragmaticsDennis R. Preston and Nancy NiedzielskiLinguistic pragmatics 18. Intention (including speech acts) Jesús Navarro19. Temporal reference Kasia M. Jaszczolt20. Formal and Natural Languages: What Logic Tells Us about Natural Language Jacques Moeschler21. Presupposition and Accommodation Jacopo Romoli and Uli Sauerland 22. GrammaticalisationMaría José López-Couso and Elena SeoaneCognition and pragmatics 23. Metarepresentation Nicholas Allott24. RelevanceStavros Assimakopoulos25. Metaphor in PragmaticsMiriam Taverniers26. EnrichmentAlison HallInteractional pragmatics 27. Conversation Hansun Zhang Waring 28. Discourse Rodney H. Jones29. Politeness Dawn Archer30. Reported SpeechIsabelle Buchstaller?Part III Pragmatics across disciplines 31. Clinical Pragmatics Louise Cummings32. Pragmatics and Neurolinguistics Elisabeth Ahlsén33. Doing Ethnography Dorothy Pawluch, Arthur McLuhan and William Shaffir34. Language Use in a Social Semiotic PerspectiveChristian M. I. M. Matthiessen35. Linguistic Pragmatics from an Evolutionary PerspectiveNikolaus RittPart IV Applications 36. Pragmatics a