Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. Part I. Introduction
6. 1. The pragmatic perspective 3
7. 2. Four dimensions of language use 9
8. Part II. The Bipersonal Dimension
9. Introduction 29
10. 3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding 31
11. 4. Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations 47
12. 5. Minimization and conversational inference 61
13. 6. Reference to persons in conversation 131
14. 7. Avoiding personal reference in Finnish 141
15. 8. Implicit involvement in interactive writing 155
16. 9. Pragmatic formatives 179
17. 10. Complaints 195
18. Part III. The Audience Dimension
19. Introduction 211
20. 11. Context-discourse matching in baby talk 213
21. 12. Towards a pragmatic approach to modality 229
22. 13. Communication 239
23. 14. Pragmatic factors and strategies in discourse production 255
24. 15. The pragmatics of argumentation 277
25. Part IV. The Layered Dimension
26. Introduction 291
27. 16. A theory of verbal irony and a Chinookan pattern of verbal exchange 293
28. 17. Introductions of story characters in interactive and non-interactive narration 339
29. 18. Making arrangements 357
30. 19. Models in descriptive meaning interpretation 367
31. 20. Silent speech acts and their cognitive effects 381
32. Part V. The Temporal Dimension
33. Introduction 393
34. 21. Pragmatics and intonation 395
35. 22. Pragmatic as against grammatical factors in the determination of accent placement 421
36. 23. Temporal expressions in Korean 435
37. 24. Stability and change in VN/NV alternating languages 455
38. 25. Conversational relevance 477
39. 26. The pragmatic motivation of syntactic and semantic perspective 497
40. 27. Aspects of the interaction of syntax and pragmatics 513
41. 28. The pragmatics of indirect anaphors 533
42. 29. Communicative reference with pronouns 547
43. 30. Processing connectives and the pragmatics of discourse 567
44. 31. Cohesion in Hopi narrative 581
45. 32. Text understanding and lexical knowledge 587
46. 33. Turns at writing 613
47. 34. Psychological or communicative reality 649
48. 35. Where is the meaning of verbal discourse? 667
49. Part VI. Foundations and Applications
50. Introduction 683
51. 36. The distinction between pragmatics and semantics 685
52. 37. Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics 695
53. 38. Pragmatics and cognition 715
54. 39. Pragmatics and Wittgenstein 733
55. 40. Pragmatics and language rehabilitation 755
56. References 771
57. Index 829