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This introduction to pragmatics provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of its central topics and a guide to the latest research. After describing the subject's scope and history, it examines conversational and conventional implicature, presupposition, speech act theory, and deixis. It then explores the interfaces between pragmatics and other core areas of inquiry, including cognition (focussing on relevance theory), semantics, and syntax. Professor Huang's lively account contains exercises with suggested solutions, a glossary, and guides to further reading. This is the ideal textb

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

Until very recently, pragmatics has been restricted to the analysis of contemporary spoken language while historical linguistics has studied historical texts and language change in a decontextualized way. This has now radically changed and scholars from around the world are trying to build a new theoretical framework that integrates recent advances both in pragmatics and in historical linguistics. The volume, which contains 22 original articles, starts with an introduction that is both a state-of-the-art account of historical pragmatics and a programmatic statement of its future potential and its different subfields. Part I contains seven pragmaphilological papers that deal with historical texts and their interpretations by paying close attention to the communicative context of these texts. The second and third parts comprise papers in diachronic pragmatics. The ten papers of part II take a linguistic form as their starting point, e.g. particular lexical items or syntactic constructions, and study their pragmatic functions at different times (diachronic form-to-function mappings), while the four papers of part III take a particular pragmatic function as their starting point, e.g. discourse strategies or politeness, and study their linguistic realisation at different times (diachronic function-to-form mappings).

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining t

Your guide to historical pragmatics in English studiesHistorical pragmatics is an emerging branch within linguistics and one of the most versatile fields in the historical study of English. It is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like (historical) sociolinguistics. It is at such interfaces where exciting new developments take place.English Historical Pragmatics introduces this field to advanced linguistic students coming to the topic for the first time. It critically evaluates data sources and methodological approaches and takes a broad social pragmatics approach to micro issues within historical pragmatics such as discourse markers, terms of address and actions performed through language. It also covers macro issues of genre, medical and news discourse and fictional literature, and it outlines the underlying principles of language change through grammaticalisation, subjectivisation and pragmaticalisation.With engaging examples throughout and thought-provoking student exercises, this advanced textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in historical pragmatics

Your guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. Historical pragmatics is an emerging branch within linguistics and one of the most versatile fields in the historical study of English. It is placed at the intersection between pragmatics, historical linguistics and neighbouring disciplines like (historical) sociolinguistics. It is at such interfaces where exciting new developments take place. English Historical Pragmatics introduces this field to advanced linguistic students coming to the topic for the first time. It critically evaluates data sources and methodological approaches and takes a broad social pragmatics approach to micro issues within historical pragmatics such as discourse markers, terms of address and actions performed through language. It also covers macro issues of genre, medical and news discourse and fictional literature, and it outlines the underlying principles of language change through grammaticalisation, subjectivisation and pragmaticalisation. With engaging examples throughout and thought-provoking student exercises, this advanced textbook provides students with a thorough grounding in historical pragmatics.

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this 10th volume focuses on the interface between pragmatics and philosophy and reviews the philosophical background from which pragmatics has taken inspiration and with which it is constantly confronted. It provides the reader with information about authors relevant to the development of pragmatics, trends or areas in philosophy that are relevant for the definition of the main concepts in pragmatics or the characterization of its cultural context, the neighbouring field of semantics (with particular respect to truth-conditional semantics and some main branches of formal semantics), and recent philosophical debates that involve pragmatic notions such as indexicality and context. While most of the references are to the analytic philosophical field, also perspectives in so-called continental philosophy are taken into account. The introductory chapter outlines some unifying routes of reflection as regards meaning, speech as action, and self and mind, and suggests some connections between doing pragmatics and doing philosophy.

Intro -- Handbook of Pragmatics. 21st Annual Installment -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Editors' note -- Acknowledgments -- User's guide -- Introduction -- The handbook format -- About the cumulative index -- Language psychology -- 1. Overview -- 2. History -- 3. Language psychology, psycholinguistics and related perspectives -- 4. Micro sociology: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis -- 5. The macro in the micro: Discourse, conversational inference and ­linguistic indexicality -- 6. Perception of mental states in (inter)action -- 6.1 Social cognition perspectives -- 6.2 Studying mentalizing processes in situ -- References -- Linear Unit Grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chunking ongoing speech -- 3. Perception of boundaries -- 4. Types of chunks -- 4.1 Types of "O" elements -- 4.2 Types of "M" elements -- 5. Linear units of meaning -- 6. Conclusion -- Primary data -- References -- Truth-conditional pragmatics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gricean pragmatics and truth-conditional meaning -- 3. Neo-Gricean pragmatics and the division of linguistic labour -- 3.1 Horn's Q and R principles -- 3.1.1 The division of linguistic labour -- 3.1.2 What is communicated -- 3.2 Levinson's heuristics -- 3.2.1 Grice's circle and its solution -- 3.2.2 Counter-examples -- 4. Post-Gricean pragmatics, implicature and explicature -- 4.1 The domain of explicature -- 4.2 The limits of implicatures -- 4.3 The relation between semantics and pragmatics -- 4.3.1 Lexical meaning and pragmatics -- 4.3.2 Procedural meaning -- 4.3.3 Synthesis -- 5. Truth-conditional pragmatics -- 6. Conclusion: The semantics-pragmatics interface revisited -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Benedict Anderson's imagined communities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Benedict Anderson's message -- 3. Language and identity -- 4. States need languages