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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:

• Methods and modalities
• Established fields
• Pragmatics across disciplines
• Applications of pragmatic research in today窶冱 world.

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Pragmatics broadly viewed: Introduction

Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen

2 Interdisciplinarity in pragmatics and linguistics

Jacob L. Mey

PART I

Methods and modalities

Data collection

3 Naturally occurring data

Andrea Golato

4 Elicited data

J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer and Maria Hasler-Barker

5 Corpora

Martin Weisser

Nonverbal communication

6 British Sign Language (BSL)

Gary Quinn

7 Gesture and pragmatics: From paralinguistic to variably linguistic

Alan Cienki

8 Paralanguage

Tim Wharton

PART II

Established fields

Pragmatics and variation

9 Variation and change: Historical pragmatics

Andreas H. Jucker and Daniela Landert

10 Variational pragmatics

Anne Barron

11 Postcolonial pragmatics

Eric A. Anchimbe and Richard W. Janney

12 Gender and sociopragmatics

Janet Holmes and Brian W. King

13 Bilingualism and multilingualism

Jasone Cenoz

Pragmatics and culture

14 Interlanguage pragmatics: A historical sketch and future directions

Naoko Taguchi

15 Intercultural pragmatics

Alessia Cogo and Juliane House

16 Identity and membership

Dorien Van de Mieroop

17 Folk pragmatics

Dennis R. Preston and Nancy Niedzielski

Linguistic pragmatics

18 Intention (including speech acts)

Jesus Navarro

19 Temporal reference

Kasia M. Jaszczolt

20 Formal and natural languages: What logic tells us about natural language

Jacques Moeschler

21 Presupposition and accommodation

Jacopo Romoli and Uli Sauerland

22 Grammaticalisation

Maria Jose Lopez-Couso and Elena Seoane

Cognition and pragmatics

23 Metarepresentation

Nicholas Allott

24 Relevance

Stavros Assimakopoulos

25 Metaphor in pragmatics

Miriam Taverniers

26 Enrichment

Alison Hall

Interactional pragmatics

27 Conversation

Hansun Zhang Waring

28 Discourse

Rodney H. Jones

29 Politeness

Dawn Archer

30 Reported speech

Isabelle Buchstaller

PART III

Pragmatics across disciplines

31 Clinical pragmatics

Louise Cummings

32 Pragmatics and neurolinguistics

Elisabeth Ahlsen

33 Doing ethnography

Dorothy Pawluch, Arthur McLuhan and William Shaffir

34 Language use in a social semiotic perspective

Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen

35 Linguistic pragmatics from an evolutionary perspective

Nikolaus Ritt

PART IV

Applications

36 Pragmatics and ontology

Laurent Prevot

37 Pragmatics and translation/interpreting

Nicole Baumgarten

38 Pragmatics in legal interpretation

Alan Durant and Janny H. C. Leung

39 Social media

Francisco Yus

40 Teaching pragmatics

Helen Basturkmen and Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen

Index