Introduction

pragmatics, linguistics, and sociocultural diversity

Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey

1-11

Pragmatics seen through the prism of society

Jacob L. Mey

15-41

Can intercultural pragmatics bring some new insight into pragmatic theories?

43-69

Critical discourse analysis

definition, approaches, relation to pragmatics, critique, and trends

Linda Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Tom Hong Do, Paul G. Renigar

71-135

Pronouns and neo-gricean pragmatics

Wayne A. Davis

137-178

Pragmatic disorders and social functioning

a lifespan perspective

Louise Cummings

179-208

The dialogic principle revisited

speech acts and mental states

Edda Weigand

209-232

Philosophy and psychoanalysis

Wittgenstein, on "language-games" and ethics

Felice Cimatti

233-250

The individual and the social path of interpretation

the case of incomplete disjunctive questions

Kasia Jaszczolt, Eleni Savva, Michael Haugh

251-283

Discourse and racism

some conclusions of 30 years of research

Teun A. Van Dijk

285-295

Discourse markers in oral narrative

Neal R. Norrick

297-327

Propositional attitudes and cultural scripts

Anna Gladkova

329-352

Modular, cellular, integral

a pragmatic elephant?

Jacob L. Mey

353-369

What can pragmatics learn from the law? (on Recanati's cases of modulation, indirect reporting, and cancellability of explicatures)

Alessandro Capone

371-394

A benchmark for politeness

Keith Allan

397-420

Impoliteness strategies

Jonathan Culpeper

421-445

Reconstructing argumentative discourse with the help of speech act conditions

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen

447-463

Presupposition as argumentative reasoning

Fabrizio Macagno

465-487

Adpositions, deixis, and anti-deixis

Alan Reed Libert

489-516

Transparency and context in legal communication

pragmatics and legal interpretation

Brian E. Butler

517-535

Conversational implicatures in normative texts

Lucia Morra

537-562

Cultural discourse analysis

pragmatics of social interaction

Donal Carbaugh

565-580

Transcription as second-order entextualization

the challenge of heteroglossia

Hartmut Haberland, Janus Mortensen

581-600

Metadiscursive strategies in dialogue

legitimising confrontational rhetoric

Cornelia Ilie

601-613

Porque in Spanish oral narratives

semantic porque, (meta)pragmatic porque or both?

Sarah E. Blackwell

615-651

Argumentation and connectives

Jacques Moeschler

653-675

Some reflections on the origin of reason through an outline of the genealogy of language in the light of homonymity, analogy, and metaphor

Ole Fogh Kirkeby

677-700

Joint utterances and the (split-)turn taking puzzle

Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Ruth Kempson

703-743

The metapragmatics of direct utterances

Tamar Katriel

745-766

The pragmatics of embedded exclamatives

Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Patricia Andueza

767-790

An assessment of the negative and positive aspects of stereotypes and the derogatory and nonderogatory uses of slurs

Adam M. Croom

791-822

A critical look at the description of speech acts

Jock Wong

825-855

The pragmatics of kéyĭ ("can") in Singapore mandarin

Jock Wong

857-876

Collectivism and coercion

the social practice of "sharing" and distinctive uses of the verb "share" in contemporary singapore

Brian Poole

877-898

Emotional feelings as a form of evidence

a case study of visceral evidentiality in mormon culture

John C. Wakefield

899-923

Rituals of death as staged communicative acts and pragmemes

Mohammad A. Salmani Nodoushan

925-959

Twenty-seven views (plus one) of language socialization

Jacob L. Mey

961-990