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The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and rece

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

This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics and communication studies and provides a multifaceted perspective on both theoretical and applied approaches to the role of language in relational work.

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?

"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?"--