HORN LAURENCE R / WARD G GREGORY

Broschiertes Buch

The Handbook of Pragmatics

Beschreibung

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of original articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. The 32 articles, written by leading scholars, provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. This Handbook is a valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language. It will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of pragmatics with syntax, semantics, lexicon, philosophy of language, information theory, and cognitive psychology. The extensive bibliography serves as a self-contained research tool for those working in the general area of pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science.

Autor

Laurence R. Horn is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Yale University Department of Linguistics. His publications include A Natural History of Negation (1989/2001) and numerous articles addressing the union (if not the intersection) of lexical semantics, negation, and neo-Gricean approaches to meaning in natural language. He is currently working on a new book, Lexical Pragmatics. Gregory Ward is Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University. His extensive publications in the area of pragmatics and information structure include Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English (with Betty Birner, 1998) and The Semantics and Pragmatics of Preposing (1988). He is also editor of a new series on language in the real word and currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 173mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1465g
• ISBN-13: 9780631225485
• ISBN-10: 063122548X
• Artikelnr.: 21706329

Rezensionen

"This outstanding and far-ranging compendium comprises 32articles that trace the contours of the field of pragmatics...Overall, this is an invaluable, comprehensive, and accessiblevolume that covers the broad range of pragmatic study embedded incognitive, social, and cultural aspects of language andcommunication. Highly recommended."Choice

"The Handbook of Pragmatics presents a stunningview of the range of research enterprises and programs of those whohave taken linguistic pragmatics 'out of the wastebasket'. LarryHorn and Gregory Ward have demonstrated by their selections andgroupings an uncanny understanding of the coherence of this fieldand their book will stand as a landmark in linguistics for a longtime to come." Ellen F.

Prince, University ofPennsylvania

"It takes erudition, vision, and good taste to compile a goodhandbook of any field, even more so in the notoriously unruly fieldof pragmatics. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have all of these. Theeditors have gathered together an excellent array of contributorsto give us a handbook that will prove eminently useful to scholarsand students within and outside pragmatics. Readers will find in ita reliable guide to the main pragmatic questions of the last threedecades, which is insightful, up-to-date, authoritative, andaccessible." Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University

"It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that thisis a stunning collection of essays, written by a cadre of thefield's best. Quality: superb. Quantity: vast. Relation: everythingthere is that's relevant to pragmatics. Manner: as clear as itgets!" Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University

"All in all, the Handbook of Pragmatics represents abroad spectrum of interests ... The collection's value is enhancedby an excellent "Introduction" from the joint hands of the editors,Larry Horn and Gregory Ward ... The book has been superblyproduced, and the articles read generally very well."Intercultural Pragmatics