The pragmatics reader
By: edited by Dawn Archer and Peter Grundy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780415546591; 9780415546607; 9780203831373
Subjects: Linguistics; Pragmatics
Description: This reader is a collection of classic texts in pragmatics and also reflects current developments in contemporary pragmatics. It includes substantial editorial commentary in the form of a detailed introduction and section introductions as well as further reading and references.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; title: Dawn Archer and Peter Grundy 2. Linguistic Pragmatics. Editors' introduction to Section 2. 2.1. How To Do Things With Words; title: J. L. Austin 2.2. Indirect Speech Acts; title: John R. Searle 2.3. Logic and Conversation; title: H. P. Grice 2.4. Western Linguistics: An Historical Introduction; title: Pieter A. M. Seuren 2.5. Pragmatic Presuppositions; title: Robert C. Stalnaker 3. Post-Gricean Pragmatics. Editors' introduction to Section 3. 3.1. Neo-Gricean Pragmatics 3.1.1. Presumptive Meanings; title: Stephen C. Levinson 3.1.2. Some Perspectives On Lexical Pragmatics; title: Reinhard Blutner 3.2. Relevance Theory 3.2.1. Relevance Theory; title: Diane Blakemore 3.2.2. Recent Developments In Relevance Theory; title: Billy Clark 3.2.3. Thoughts and Utterances; title: Robyn Carston 3.2.4 The Mapping Between the Mental and the Public Lexicon; title: Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson 4. Indexicality. Editors' introduction to Section 4. 4.1. DEIXIS; title: Stephen C. Levinson 4.2. Alternate Grounds in the Interpretation of Deictic Expressions; title: Jo Rubba 4.3. Notes on the Role of Metapragmatic Awareness; title: Jef Verschueren 5. Historical Pragmatics. Editors' introduction to Section 5. 5.1. The Role Of Pragmatics In Semantic Change; title: Elizabeth Close Traugott 5.2. Pragmatic Markers In English: Grammaticalization And Discourse Functions; title: Laurel J. Brinton 5.3. Diachronic Speech Act Analysis: Insults From Flyting To Flaming; title: Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen 6. Politeness, Face and Impoliteness. Editors' introduction to Section 6. 6.1. On Face-Work: An Analysis Of Ritual Elements In Social Interaction; title: Erving Goffman 6.2. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage; title: Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson 6.3. Relational Work And Impoliteness: Negotiating Norms Of Linguistic Behaviour; title: Miriam A. Locher and Richard J. Watts 6.4. Impoliteness And Entertainment In The Television Quiz Show: The Weakest Link; title: Jonathan Culpeper 7. Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics. Editors' introduction to Section 7. 7.1. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies; title: Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Julianne House and Gabriele Kasper 7.2. Why Can't Learners Of JFL Distinguish Polite From Impolite Speech Styles?; title: Haruko Minegishi Cook 7.3. Intercultural Pragmatics; title: Istvan Kecskes 8. Pragmatics and Conversation; title: Development and Impairment. Editors' introduction to Section 8. 8.1. Pragmatic Development; title: Anat Ninio and Catherine E. Snow 8.2. Discourse, Pragmatics, Conversation, Analysis; title: Emanuel A. Schegloff 8.3. Conversations With An Alzheimer's Patient; title: Heidi Ehrenberger Hamilton 9. Pragmaticians on Pragmatics. Editors' introduction to Section 9. 9.1. Against Rationalistic Pragmatics; title: Roman Kopytko 9.2. Pragmatics In The Late Twentieth Century: Countering Recent Historiographic Neglect; title: Jon F. Pressman 9.3. From the Ideal, the Ordinary, and the Orderly to Conflict and Violence in Pragmatic Research; title: Charles L. Briggs 10. Theory and Practice in Pragmatics; title: Dawn Archer