Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of contributors ix
4. Preface xi
5. Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction 1
6. Part I. Empirical practice
7. The embodiment of linguistic meaning 35
8. Infants’ encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure 55
9. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila 71
10. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction 99
11. Many languages, one knowledge base 129
12. Part II. Practical theories
13. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms 159
14. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles 185
15. Does Searle’s challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen ? 245
16. The pragmatics of argumentation 257
17. Implicature of complex sentences in error models 273
18. The semantics of functional spaces 307
19. Language index 325
20. Name index 327
21. Subject index 333