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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Types of pragmatics -- 1.2 Pragmatics and linguistics -- 1.3 Structure of the book -- 2 Semantics and Pragmatics -- 2.1 The borderline -- 2.2 Sentences and utterances -- 2.3 Language and logic -- 2.4 Mood -- 2.5 The explicit and the implicit -- 2.6 Presupposition -- 2.7 Deixis -- 3 History of Pragmatics -- 3.1 Structuralism -- 3.2 Logical positivism -- 3.3 Ordinary language philosophy -- 3.4 The beginnings of pragmatics -- 4 'Classical' Pragmatics -- 4.1 Speech act theory -- 4.2 Implicature -- 5 Modern Pragmatics -- 5.1 Neo-Gricean pragmatics -- 5.2 Relevance theory -- 5.3 Semantic autonomy and pragmatic intrusion -- 6 Applications of Pragmatics -- 6.1 Politeness -- 6.2 Literature -- 6.3 Language acquisition -- 6.4 Clinical linguistics -- 6.5 Experimental pragmatics -- 7 Pragmatics and Language in Context -- 7.1 Conversation analysis -- 7.2 Discourse analysis -- 7.3 Sociolinguistics -- 7.4 Corpus linguistics -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics has been fully revised and updated. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language, as well as new material covering subjects including conversational implicature, emotional deixis, and contextualism versus semantic minimalism.

"Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics - implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness - naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered 'beyond pragmatics'. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?"--

How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication? This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to an exciting new field in which models of language and meaning are tested and compared using techniques from psycholinguistics.

Intro -- Legal Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Pragmatics and legal discourse -- 2. Spoken discourse -- 3. Historical courtroom discourse -- 4. The contents -- 4.1 Historical pragmatics -- 4.2 Pragmatics of legal writing and documents -- 4.3 Discourse in the courtroom and in police investigation -- 4.4 Legal discourse and multilingualism -- References -- Part 1. Historical pragmatics -- Chapter 1. Pleading for life: Narrative patterns within legal petitions (Salem, 1692)Narrative patterns within legal petitions (Salem, 1692) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data -- 3. Language and the legal context -- 4. Features of social narratives -- 4.1 Voices of belief -- 4.2 Community voices -- 4.3 Family voices -- 5. Petitionary letters in twenty-first century America -- 6. Concluding comments -- Key to orthography of seventeenth-century English -- References -- Chapter 2. "How came you not to cry out?": Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730-1798 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Negative questions and their ideological origins -- 2.1 Controlling questions -- 2.2 Biased ideologies and rape myths -- 3. Data -- 3.1 The "bad data" problem -- 3.2 Collecting a sample -- 4. Analysing the corpus - patterns of meaning and powerful repertoires of practice -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. Implicatures in Early Modern English courtroom records -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The analysis -- 2.1 The trial of Charles I (1649) -- 2.2 The trial of Titus Oates -- 2.3 The trial of Lady Alice Lisle -- 3. Final remarks -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Chapter 4. Literal interpretation and political expediency: The case of Thomas More -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The four statutes

2. The data3. Language and the legal context; 4. Features of social narratives; 4.1 Voices of belief; 4.2 Community voices; 4.3 Family voices; 5. Petitionary letters in twenty-first century America; 6. Concluding comments; Key to orthography of seventeenth-century English; References; Chapter 2. "How came you not to cry out?": Pragmatic effects of negative questioning in child rape trials in the Old Bailey Proceedings 1730-1798; 1. Introduction; 2. Negative questions and their ideological origins; 2.1 Controlling questions; 2.2 Biased ideologies and rape myths; 3. Data

All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting original ways in which research in the particular areas they adhere to could advance. Apart from the obvious aim of motivating further discussion on the topics it touches on, a central objective of this volume is to underline that research in pragmatics can and does substantially inform research in numerous other fields of enquiry, namely philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and conversation analysis, revealing in this way the truly interdisciplinary nature of pragmatics theorizing. In this respect, and given that most of the contributions in this volume are from leading scholars in their respective fields, it is clearly expected that the ideas put forth in this volume will have a profound and long-lasting impact for future research in the area.