Handbook of Pragmatics

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.

• List of Contributors viiiIntroduction xiI The Domain of Pragmatics 11. Implicature 3Laurence R. Horn2. Presupposition 29Jay David Atlas3. Speech Acts 53Jerrold Sadock4. Reference 74Gregory Carlson5. Deixis 97Stephen C. Levinson6. Definiteness and Indefiniteness 122Barbara AbbottII Pragmatics and Discourse Structure 1517. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax 153Gregory Ward and Betty Birner8. Topic and Focus 175Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation 197Craige Roberts10. Discourse Markers 221Diane Blakemore11. Discourse Coherence 241Andrew Kehler12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences 266Robert J. Stainton13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics–Syntax Interface 288Yan Huang14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives 315Susumu Kuno15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation 344Geoffrey Nunberg16. Pragmatics of Language Performance 365Herbert H. Clark17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference 383Andrew Kehler and Gregory WardIII Pragmatics and its Interfaces 40518. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar 407Georgia M. Green19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure 427Adele E. Goldberg20. Pragmatics and Semantics 442François Recanati21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language 463Kent Bach22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon 488Reinhard Blutner23. Pragmatics and Intonation 515Julia Hirschberg24. Historical Pragmatics 538Elizabeth Closs Traugott25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition 562Eve V. Clark26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics 578Daniel JurafskyIV Pragmatics and Cognition 60527. Relevance Theory 607Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber28. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction 633Robyn Carston29. Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 657Gilles Fauconnier30. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions 675Paul Kay31. The Pragmatics of Polarity 701Michael Israel32. Abduction in Natural Language Understanding 724Jerry R. HobbsBibliography 742Index 820

“This outstanding and far-ranging compendium comprises 32 articles that trace the contours of the field of pragmatics… Overall, this is an invaluable, comprehensive, and accessible volume that covers the broad range of pragmatic study embedded in cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of language and communication. Highly recommended.” Choice“The Handbook of Pragmatics presents a stunning view of the range of research enterprises and programs of those who have taken linguistic pragmatics 'out of the wastebasket'. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have demonstrated by their selections and groupings an uncanny understanding of the coherence of this field and their book will stand as a landmark in linguistics for a long time to come.” Ellen F. Prince, University of Pennsylvania "It takes erudition, vision, and good taste to compile a good handbook of any field, even more so in the notoriously unruly field of pragmatics. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have all of these. The editors have gathered together an excellent array of contributors to give us a handbook that will prove eminently useful to scholars and students within and outside pragmatics. Readers will find in it a reliable guide to the main pragmatic questions of the last three decades, which is insightful, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible." Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University "It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that this is a stunning collection of essays, written by a cadre of the field's best. Quality: superb. Quantity: vast. Relation: everything there is that's relevant to pragmatics. Manner: as clear as it gets!" Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University "All in all, the Handbook of Pragmatics represents a broad spectrum of interests ... The collection's value is enhanced by an excellent "Introduction" from the joint hands of the editors, Larry Horn and Gregory Ward ... The book has been superbly produced, and the articles read generally very well." Intercultural Pragmatics