The Handbook of Pragmatics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Horn, Laurence; Ward, Gergory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that 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. * * Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. * Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. * Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. * Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470756713
• Artikelnr.: 38213201

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Laurence R. Horn (Yale University) And Gregory Ward(Northwestern University).

Part I: The Domain of Pragmatics.

Part II: Pragmatics and Discourse Structure.

Part III: Pragmatics and Its Interfaces.

Part IV: Pragmatics and Cognition.

References.

Index.

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