Handbook of pragmatics : manual / Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verschueren, Jef, author.

Östman, Jan-Ola, author.

Series:

Handbook of Pragmatics

Handbook of Pragmatics ; v.M2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Linguistics--Methodology.

Linguistics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1906 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins B.V., [2022]

Summary:

This second edition of the Manual is intended to facilitate access to the most comprehensive resource available today for any scholar interested in pragmatics as defined by the International Pragmatics Association: "the science of language use, in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a functional perspective on language and communication.".

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

The Handbook and the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Basic options

The problem of representativeness

The Handbook format

Acknowledgements

The pragmatic perspective

1.Pragmatics and its formative traditions

2.Pragmatics as a repository of interesting topics

3.The problem of delimitation

4.On dimensions, perspectives, methodology, and evidence

5.A functional perspective on language

References

Traditions

Accommodation theory

1.Overview

2.Speech accommodation theory

3.Conceptual developments

4.The accommodation model: Predictive or interpretive?

5.Discourse attuning

Action theory

1.Definition and ascription of action

2.Criteria for action

3.Other concepts associated with action

4.Typologies of action

Analytical philosophy

1.Philosophy as analysis

1.1The 'linguistic turn'

1.2The influence of Frege

1.3Analysis in G.E. Moore and B. Russell

2.Analysis and the ideal of scientific language

2.1Wittgenstein's Tractatus

2.2Rudolf Carnap and the encyclopedia of unified science

3.Analysis and ordinary language

3.1The evolution of Wittgenstein's thought

3.2Wittgenstein's influence and ordinary language philosophy

3.3Some Oxford philosophers

3.3.1J.L. Austin

3.3.2P.F. Strawson

3.3.3H.P. Grice

4.Further developments of analytical philosophy

4.1W.V.O. Quine: From analysis to naturalization

4.2From intensional semantics to discourse representation theory

4.3Meaning and understanding

4.4Philosophy of mind

5.Analytical philosophy and pragmatics

Anthropological linguistics

1.Preliminaries

2.Early history

3.Early types of research

4.Continuity

5.The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

6.Ethnographic semantics.

7.The ethnography of communication

8.Sociolinguistics

9.Recent research and current directions

Applied linguistics

1.Introduction

2.The educational setting

2.1Child language and early literacy

2.2Classroom interaction

2.3Second and foreign language learning

2.4Teaching methodology and language testing

2.5Schooling and society

3.The economic-technical setting

3.1Improving written documents

3.2Studies of discourse in organizations

4.Legal and bureaucratic settings

4.1Comprehensibility of legal and bureaucratic language

4.2Asymmetries in court and police encounters

4.3Forensic linguistics

5.The medical-social setting

6.The workplace

6.1Workplace interaction

6.2Conflicts and negotiations

6.3Discourse and technology

7.Science and the academic setting

7.1The sociological-rhetorical study of scientific discourse

7.2The study of academic genres and writing

7.3Spoken discourse within academia

8.Conclusion

Argumentation theory

2.Modern rhetoric

3.Formal dialectics and pragma-dialectics

4.Informal logic

5.Ducrot and Anscombre's radical argumentativism

6.Other approaches

7.Conclusion

Artificial intelligence

3.The physical symbol system hypothesis

4.Paradigms for the representation of knowledge

4.1State-space search

4.2Logic-based formalisms

4.3Semantic network formalisms and frames

4.4Rule-based formalisms

5.Linguistic symbol manipulation in semantics and pragmatics

5.1Semantics

5.2Knowledge and intentions

5.3Utterances in context

5.4Modeling the user

5.4.1User modeling and dialog systems

5.4.2Dimensions of user models

5.4.3Construction of a user model

5.4.4Instantiating the user model: Collecting evidence in dialog.

5.5Generating discourse

6.Epilogue

Autonomous vs. non-autonomous syntax

1.Introduction: Defining the issue

2.Autonomous syntax

2.1Autonomous syntax as a methodology

2.2Autonomous syntax as a theory

3.Non-autonomous syntax

3.1Functionalist methodology

3.2Functionalist grammar

Behaviorism

Case grammar

Catastrophe theory

1.Background

2.Applications in pragmatics

3.Generalized catastrophes

Chomskyan linguistics

Clinical pragmatics

1.The scope of clinical pragmatics

2.Theoretical issues

2.1Is pragmatic impairment a neurological, cognitive or behavioural phenomenon?

2.2Modular vs interactionist theories of pragmatic impairment

3.Describing pragmatic impairment

3.1Pragmatic profiles

3.2Pragmatic theories and frameworks

3.3Neuropragmatics

3.4Cognitive pragmatics

4.The range of pragmatic impairments

4.1Primary pragmatic impairment

4.1.1Right hemisphere damage

4.1.2Traumatic brain injury

4.1.3Dementia

4.1.4Schizophrenia

4.1.5Autistic spectrum disorder

4.2Secondary pragmatic impairment

4.2.1Nonfluent aphasia

4.2.2Fluent aphasia

4.2.3Specific Language Impairment

4.2.4Sensorimotor dysfunction

5.Clinical pragmatics and pragmatic theory

Cognitive anthropology

1.Historical background

2.Reconstruing cognitive anthropology

Cognitive grammar

2.Organization

3.Conceptualist semantics

4.Grammar as symbolization

Cognitive linguistics

1.General characterization

2.Cognitive linguistics and cognitive science

2.1In what sense is cognitive linguistics a cognitive enterprise?

2.2Cognitive linguistics and generative grammar.

3.Major areas of research within cognitive linguistics

4.Cognitive linguistics and pragmatics

Cognitive psychology

2.Basic issues

2.1The architecture of the cognitive system

2.1.1Modular vs. interactive approaches

2.2.2Symbolic vs. connectionist approaches

2.2Forms of representation

2.3The nature of information processing

3.Methods

4.Cognitive psychology and pragmatics

4.1Pragmatics and inferences

4.2Pragmatics and the co-ordination of actions

4.3Further issues

Cognitive science

1.Definition

2.History of contributing fields

2.1Philosophy

2.2Artificial intelligence

2.3Psychology

2.4Linguistics

2.5Neuroscience

2.6Current directions

3.1Methods for investigating behavior

3.1.1Psychological experiments

3.1.2Naturalistic observation and ethnography

3.1.3Linguistic methodologies

3.1.4Eye tracking

3.2Neuroscience techniques

3.2.1Neuropsychology and lesion studies

3.2.2Brain imaging

3.2.3Event-related potentials

3.3Computational techniques

3.3.1Computational modeling

3.3.2Corpus research

4.Issues

4.1The mind-body problem

4.2From genes to behavior

4.3Representation and rationality

5.Cognitive science and pragmatics

5.1Definition

5.2Methods

5.3Issues

5.4Convergent interests

5.4.1World knowledge and cultural knowledge

5.4.2Mappings

5.4.3Conceptual integration

5.5Conclusions

Cognitive sociology

1.Historical overview

2.The interrelation of interactional sense-making processesand social organization

2.1Interaction

2.2Discourse

2.3Cognition

2.4Organizational activities and materials

3.Key concepts

3.1Interpretive procedures

3.2Expertise

3.3Social organization

3.4Inequality and stratification.

3.5Organizational constraints

4.Methodology

5.A sample analysis

Componential analysis

2.The structuralist tradition

3.Linguistic anthropology

4.Generative and typological studies

5.Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)

6.Other trends and problems

Computational linguistics

1.Delimitation of the field

3.Theoretical foundations

3.1The role of computability

3.2GPSG and LFG

3.3Complex symbols

4.Tools, techniques and levels of description

4.1Deep processing techniques

4.1.1Computational morphology

4.1.2Grammars and parsing

4.1.3PATR

4.1.4Computational semantics

4.1.5Computational pragmatics

4.2Probabilistic techniques in text analysis

Computational pragmatics

2.Sentences in context

2.1Intentions, inferencing and planning

2.2Discourse relations

3.Interactive situations

3.1Natural language interfaces

3.2Question answering

3.3Conversational agents

4.Dialog modeling

4.1Cooperation

4.2Shared context and grounding

4.3Topic and new information in the presentation of information

5.Generating discourse

6.Situated interaction with intelligent agents

6.1Intelligent agents

6.2Modeling the user

6.2.1User modeling and dialog systems

6.2.2Dimensions of user models

6.2.3Construction of user profiles

6.2.4Instantiating the user model: Collecting evidence in dialog

6.2.5User modeling in simulated dialog systems

6.3Multimodality and affect

7.Discussion and conclusion

Acknowledgments

Conceptual semantics

1.Historical background: conceptual semantics as a generative theory

2.Goals of the research

3.Background assumptions

3.1The system nature of mind and language

3.2Modularity of mind: representational modularity.

3.3Cognitive constraint.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027257680

902725768X