Routledge Handbook Of Pragmatics, The

Description: 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.

Contents: 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. Cesar Felix-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) 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

Author Biography: Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University of Luneburg, 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.