1. Pragmatics as a linguistic concept

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to the handbook series V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Table of contents XI
5. Introduction: the burgeoning field of pragmatics 1
6. Part I Conceptual foundations
7. 1. Pragmatics as a linguistic concept 23
8. 2. Micropragmatics and macropragmatics 51
9. 3. Pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics 77
10. 4. Metapragmatics 107
11. Part II Theoretical foundations
12. 5. The rise of pragmatics: a historiographic overview 139
13. 6. Semiotic foundations of pragmatics 167
14. 7. Pragmatics in modern philosophy of language 203
15. 8. Foundations of pragmatics in functional linguistics 229
16. 9. Foundations: ethnomethodology and Erving Goffman 261
17. 10. Pragmatics in Habermas’ Critical Social Theory 289
18. Part III Key topics in pragmatic description
19. 11. Deixis and indexicality 315
20. 12. Reference and anaphora 347
21. 13. Speech acts 373
22. 14. Types of inference: entailment, presupposition, and implicature 397
23. Part IV The place of pragmatics in the description of discourse
24. 15. Pragmatics and grammar 425
25. 16. Pragmatics and semantics 461
26. 17. Pragmatics and prosody: prosody as social action 491
27. 18. Pragmatics and literature 511
28. Part V Methods and tools
29. 19. Approaching the data of pragmatics 537
30. 20. Experimental pragmatics 561
31. 21. Corpus-based pragmatics I: qualitative studies 587
32. 22. Corpus-based pragmatics II: quantitative studies 629
33. 23. The transcription of face-to-face interaction 657
34. About the authors 681
35. Name index 691
36. Subject index 706