1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics
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’s 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.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors
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. César Félix-Brasdefer and Maria Hasler-Barker
5. Corpora
Martin Weisser
Non-verbal 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 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)
Jesús 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
María José López-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 Ahlsén
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 Prévot
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
Biography
Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. Recent publications include Public Information Messages (2012) and Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics (2003). She has also co-edited several volumes, including Pragmatics of Discourse (2014), Variational Pragmatics (2008) and Pragmatics of Irish English (2005), all three co-edited with Klaus P. Schneider. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics.
Yueguo Gu is a Special Title Professor of Linguistics at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Recent publications include Using the Computer in ELT (2006) and Pragmatics and Discourse Studies (2010). He has also edited several series of textbooks and collections of academic papers such as Initial Exploration of Online Education (2004) and Second Exploration of Online Education (2005).
Gerard Steen is Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also the founding director of the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam.
"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
