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The Handbook of Pragmatics Edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward “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 Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics This outstanding multi-volume series covers all the malor subdisciplines within linguistics today and, when cornplctc, will offcr a comprehensive survey of Itnguistics as a whole. 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Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Kachru, Cecil L Nelso and Natalie Schilling-Estes The Handbook ojHistorical Linguistics Edited by Brian D. Joseph and Richard D Janda The Handbook of Pragmatics Edited by Laurence R. Horn and Gregory Ward 02004,2006 bv Blackwell Publishing I.td Rl.ACKWELI. PUBLLSIflNC 350 Main Strcet, Maldcn. MA 02 14s 5020. USA 9600 Carsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ. UK 550 Swaiialun Strcct, Carlton. Victoria 3053. Australia Thr right of Laurence K llorn and Gregory Ward to be identified as thc Aulliors uf the Cditorial Matenal in this Work has kena sserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs. and Patents Act 1988 All rights reervcd. No part of this publitation may be rcproduccd, ztored in a retncval bystern. or transmitted, in any form or by any mcans. elcctronir, mwhdnical. photocopying. recording or otherwisc. except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, wlthout the prior permissinn of the publisher First published 2004 by Ulackwell Publishmg Ltd First published in paperback 2006 by [Ilackwell Publizhing Ltd 1 2006 Library ofConpss Cafaloging in Publication U~to 1 he handbook of pragmatic31 edited by Laurence R Hurii and Gregory Ward. p cm. - (Blackwell handbooks in linguistics. 16) Includes bibliographical referent-. ISBN 0-631.22547.1 (alk paper) 1 Pragnahcs 1 I lorn. Laurence R I1 Ward, Cregory L 111 Srwcs IY9.4.P721135 2004 306.44 - dc22 2003016284 ISBN-13.9780 -631.22547.8 (alk paper) ISBN 13 978 0-631 22548.5 (paperback) ISI<N-lO 0 h31.22548.X (paperback) Acataloguc rccord for this title is avahble from the Bntihh I ihrary Set in 10112 pt Palatlno by Graphcraft Ltd. Iiong Kong Pnnted and bound in the United Kingdom by Tj International, Padstow. Cornwall The publisher's plirv is to uqe pcrmmcnt pAper from mills that operate a sustainable forestry policy. and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid.frw and rlemcntary cliluriiidree practiccs Furthermore, the publisher ensures that the text paper and cnver board used have met arreptable environmental accreditation standards Ibr further information on Blackwell Publistung. visit our website www blackwellpublishing com Contents List of Contributors viii Introduction xi I The Domain of Pragmatics 1 1. Implicature 3 Laurence R. Horn 2. Presupposition 29 Jay David Atlas 3. Speech Acts 53 Jerrold Sadock 4. Reference 74 Gregory Carlson 5. Deixis 97 Stephen C. Levinson 6. Deﬁniteness and Indeﬁniteness 122 Barbara Abbott II Pragmatics and Discourse Structure 151 7. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax 153 Gregory Ward and Betty Birner 8. Topic and Focus 175 Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim 9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation 197 Craige Roberts vi Contents 10. Discourse Markers 221 Diane Blakemore 11. Discourse Coherence 241 Andrew Kehler 12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences 266 Robert J. Stainton 13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics–Syntax Interface 288 Yan Huang 14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives 315 Susumu Kuno 15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation 344 Geoffrey Nunberg 16. Pragmatics of Language Performance 365 Herbert H. Clark 17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference 383 Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward III Pragmatics and its Interfaces 405 18. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar 407 Georgia M. Green 19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure 427 Adele E. Goldberg 20. Pragmatics and Semantics 442 François Recanati 21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language 463 Kent Bach 22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon 488 Reinhard Blutner 23. Pragmatics and Intonation 515 Julia Hirschberg 24. Historical Pragmatics 538 Elizabeth Closs Traugott 25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition 562 Eve V. Clark 26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics 578 Daniel Jurafsky Contents vii IV Pragmatics and Cognition 605 27. Relevance Theory 607 Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 28. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction 633 Robyn Carston 29. Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 657 Gilles Fauconnier 30. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions 675 Paul Kay 31. The Pragmatics of Polarity 701 Michael Israel 32. Abduction in Natural Language Understanding 724 Jerry R. Hobbs Bibliography 742 Index 820