Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, and is affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY), USA, and Tomsk State University, Russia.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: New Waves in PragmaticsIstvan Kecskes and Monika Kirner-LudwigChapter 2. Can cats pick up chainsaws? The interaction of context and plausibility Stanley Alexander DonahooChapter 3. Scalar Implicature through the lens of Distributional Linguistics Maxime Codère CorbeilChapter 4. "We have a big crowd": The different referents of the first-person plural in U.S. presidential candidates’ talk on entertainment-political interviews Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven Chapter 5.Whatever can be meant can be echoed: A comparison of since when questions and echo declarative questions Angelika KissChapter 6.The pragmatics of Japanese quotative constructions: a comparative study between Japanese and Japanese heritage language familiesKiyono Fujinaga-GordonChapter 7.Managing epistemic asymmetry through dialogic resonance in therapy interactions Rong LeiChapter 8.At-issue or not-at-issue discourse contribution by puisque ('since')? Information structure and discourse structureHasmik JivanyanChapter 9.A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation" Erika Bellingham, Hanno Beck and Richard Hatcher Chapter 10.Pragmatic aspects of translation: a contrastive analysis of translation processes illustrated by inductive-empirical eye-tracking, writing process analysis, and a questionnaire KyeongHwa Lee

Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, and is affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY), USA, and Tomsk State University, Russia.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: New Waves in PragmaticsIstvan Kecskes and Monika Kirner-LudwigChapter 2. Can cats pick up chainsaws? The interaction of context and plausibility Stanley Alexander DonahooChapter 3. Scalar Implicature through the lens of Distributional Linguistics Maxime Codère CorbeilChapter 4. "We have a big crowd": The different referents of the first-person plural in U.S. presidential candidates’ talk on entertainment-political interviews Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven Chapter 5.Whatever can be meant can be echoed: A comparison of since when questions and echo declarative questions Angelika KissChapter 6.The pragmatics of Japanese quotative constructions: a comparative study between Japanese and Japanese heritage language familiesKiyono Fujinaga-GordonChapter 7.Managing epistemic asymmetry through dialogic resonance in therapy interactions Rong LeiChapter 8.At-issue or not-at-issue discourse contribution by puisque ('since')? Information structure and discourse structureHasmik JivanyanChapter 9.A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation" Erika Bellingham, Hanno Beck and Richard Hatcher Chapter 10.Pragmatic aspects of translation: a contrastive analysis of translation processes illustrated by inductive-empirical eye-tracking, writing process analysis, and a questionnaire KyeongHwa Lee

Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, and is affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY), USA, and Tomsk State University, Russia.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: New Waves in PragmaticsIstvan Kecskes and Monika Kirner-LudwigChapter 2. Can cats pick up chainsaws? The interaction of context and plausibility Stanley Alexander DonahooChapter 3. Scalar Implicature through the lens of Distributional Linguistics Maxime Codère CorbeilChapter 4. "We have a big crowd": The different referents of the first-person plural in U.S. presidential candidates’ talk on entertainment-political interviews Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven Chapter 5.Whatever can be meant can be echoed: A comparison of since when questions and echo declarative questions Angelika KissChapter 6.The pragmatics of Japanese quotative constructions: a comparative study between Japanese and Japanese heritage language familiesKiyono Fujinaga-GordonChapter 7.Managing epistemic asymmetry through dialogic resonance in therapy interactions Rong LeiChapter 8.At-issue or not-at-issue discourse contribution by puisque ('since')? Information structure and discourse structureHasmik JivanyanChapter 9.A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation" Erika Bellingham, Hanno Beck and Richard Hatcher Chapter 10.Pragmatic aspects of translation: a contrastive analysis of translation processes illustrated by inductive-empirical eye-tracking, writing process analysis, and a questionnaire KyeongHwa Lee