Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment

Handbook of Pragmatics. 21st Annual Installment
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Editors’ note
	Acknowledgments
User’s guide
	Introduction
	The handbook format
	About the cumulative index
Language psychology
	1. Overview
	2. History
	3. Language psychology, psycholinguistics and related perspectives
	4. Micro sociology: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
	5. The macro in the micro: Discourse, conversational inference and ­linguistic indexicality
	6. Perception of mental states in (inter)action
		6.1 Social cognition perspectives
		6.2 Studying mentalizing processes in situ
	References
Linear Unit Grammar
	1. Introduction
	2. Chunking ongoing speech
	3. Perception of boundaries
	4. Types of chunks
		4.1 Types of “O” elements
		4.2 Types of “M” elements
	5. Linear units of meaning
	6. Conclusion
	Primary data
	References
Truth-conditional pragmatics
	1. Introduction
	2. Gricean pragmatics and truth-conditional meaning
	3. Neo-Gricean pragmatics and the division of linguistic labour
		3.1 Horn’s Q and R principles
			3.1.1 The division of linguistic labour
			3.1.2 What is communicated
		3.2 Levinson’s heuristics
			3.2.1 Grice’s circle and its solution
			3.2.2 Counter-examples
	4. Post-Gricean pragmatics, implicature and explicature
		4.1 The domain of explicature
		4.2 The limits of implicatures
		4.3 The relation between semantics and pragmatics
			4.3.1 Lexical meaning and pragmatics
			4.3.2 Procedural meaning
			4.3.3 Synthesis
	5. Truth-conditional pragmatics
	6. Conclusion: The semantics-pragmatics interface revisited
	Acknowledgment
	References
Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities
	1. Introduction
	2. Benedict Anderson’s message
	3. Language and identity
	4. States need languages
	5. Old languages, new models
	6. Standard languages and non-standard speakers
	8. Linguistic habitus and speaker strategies
	9. Conclusion – imagined communities, imagined languages
	References
Emotions
	1. Overview
	2. A philosophical perspective on emotion and language
	3. A neuroscience perspective
	4. Linguistics and emotions: A cognitive perspective under construction
	5. The pragmatic path: Beyond meaning
	6. Final thoughts
	Acknowledgment
	References
Language maintenance and shift
	1. Introduction
	2. Statistical studies of factors influencing language maintenance and shift
	3. Domains of use
	4. Family language policy
	5. Institutional support for heritage language learning and use
	6. Challenges for language maintenance and shift research
	7. Conclusion
Mianzi/lian
	1. Introduction
	2. Conceptualizations of mianzi/lian in historical literature
		2.1 Socio-cultural interpretations of mianzi/lian
		2.2 Culture-specific accounts of mianzi/lian
	3. Differentiation of Chinese face from English-based face and politeness
		3.1 Differences between generalized concepts of face in Chinese and English
		3.2 Differences in how face relates to politeness in Chinese and English
		3.3 Differences of positive and negative face in Chinese and English
	4. Reinterpreting Chinese mianzi/lian in interaction
		4.1 Similarities and differences in mianzi/lian representations
		4.2 Similarities and differences in orientation to the self and others
	5. Concluding remarks
	References
Roman Jakobson
	1. Biography
	2. Phonology: Phonemes and distinctive features
	3. Morphology
	4. Child language, aphasia, language universals
	5. The model of communication
	6. The essence of language: Combination
	References
Stance
	1. General overview
	2. Forms and functions of stance
		2.1 Epistemic stance
		2.2 Affective stance
		2.3 Stance-displaying devices beyond lexis and grammar
	3. The stance triangle
		3.1 Evaluation
		3.2 Positioning
		3.3 Alignment
		3.4 Previous research on stance alignment
	4. Contextualization of stance: The local-global nexus
		4.1 The local context: Dialogicality and sequentiality
		4.2 The global context: Indexicality and consequences
	5. Summary and implications of stance
	References
Style and styling
	1. Introduction
	2. Style and context
	3. Style and social meaning
	4. Performing styles: Stylization and cultural reflexivity
	5. An example
	References
Superdiversity
	1. Introduction
	2. Ideas about contact
	3. Ideas about language, continuity, and change
	4. Ideas about identity
	5. Ideas about community
	6. Ideas about approaches
	7. Conclusion
	References
Tactile sign languages
	1. Introduction
	2. Body position and contact in tactile signing
	3. Question formation
	4. Turn-taking
	5. Feedback
	6. Environmental information
	7. A note on data collection
	8. Conclusion
	References
Cumulative index