Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment

Handbook of Pragmatics. 22nd 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
Gesture research
	1. Introduction
	2. The attraction of gestures
	3. Contemporary research on gesture
	4. Gestures’ environments
	5. Indexical gesture
	6. Depiction
	7. Conceptual action
	8. Gesturing the search for a word: Two perspectives
	9. Pragmatics
	10. The view from cognitive linguistics
	11. An anthropological perspective on gesture
	References
Social media research
	1. Introduction
	2. Social media and Web 2.0
	3. Looking back
	4. Complicating context
	5. The situatedness of online interactions: Users, blended data and mixed methods
	6. Looking forward
	References
Translanguaging Pedagogy
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
	3. Strong versions of translanguaging
	4. Response to strong versions of translanguaging
	5. Emerging issues in translingually informed pedagogies
	References
Code-switching and translanguaging
	1. Introduction
	2. Code-switching
		2.1 Code-switching: A historical contextualization
		2.2 Code-switching in action
		2.3 Implications for bilingual creativity and code-autonomy
	3. Translanguaging
		3.1 Translanguaging and the paradigm trap
	4. Conclusions
	References
Event representation
	1. Introduction
	2. The development of event representation
	3. Event representation and linguistics
	4. Event representation and event construal
	5. Conclusion
	References
Evidentiality
	1. Preliminaries
	2. Modality and evidentiality
	3. Information sources
	4. Engagement, epistemic authority and right to know
	5. Non-evidential uses of evidentials
	6. Acquisition of evidentials
	7. Summary
	Abbreviations
	References
Lexically triggered veridicality inferences
	1. Introduction
	2. Variation in lexically triggered veridicality inferences
		2.1 Variation relative to entailment cancelling operators
			2.1.1 Matrix negation
			2.1.2 Conditionals and interrogatives
			2.1.3 Modal elements
		2.2 Other conditions on variation
			2.2.1 Other semantic operators
			2.2.2 Contextual conditions on variation
	3. Explanatory approaches
		3.1 Conventionalist approaches
			3.1.1 Factive inferences
				3.1.1.1 Common ground approaches
				3.1.1.2 Anaphoric approaches
			3.1.2 Implicative inferences
		3.2 Conversationalist approaches
	4. Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
Orthography and cognition
	1. Introduction: Language and communication
	2. Different writing systems
	3. The encoding principles of an alphabetic orthography
	4. Alphabetic writing systems and our cognitive system
		4.1 The crucial importance of phonemic awareness
		4.2 The importance of effective literacy instruction: The success of the phonics method
		4.3 The importance of phonological skills for understanding dyslexia
	5. Cognitive implications of an orthography that encodes a word’s morphemes
		5.1 The importance of root awareness in young children
		5.2 A morpheme-based spelling paradox in experienced spellers
		5.3 The impact of encoding morphological structure on word recognition
	6. Conclusion
	References
Pragmatics of script
	1. Introduction
	2. Script communities and graphic differentiation
	3. Graphic affordances and script-code (mis)alignments
	4. Scaling multiscriptality
	5. Script and embodiment
	6. For a future pragmatics of script
	References
Pragmemes
	References
Ta’ārof
	1. Introduction
	2. The linguistic mechanics of Ta’ārof
		2.1 Ta’ārof and the Persian verb
		2.2 Ta’ārof and pronouns
		2.3 Ta’ārof and polite discourse
		2.4 Befarmā’id
	3. Behavioral ta’ārof
		3.1 Deference in physical movement and comportment
		3.2 Seating
		3.3 Greeting
		3.4 Accepting things
		3.5 Guests and hosts
	4. Using Ta’arof in pragmatic interaction
		4.1 Expressing disapproval
		4.2 Face-saving
		4.3 Overpraise as defense of reputation
		4.4 Actual refusal
	5. Understanding the logic of Ta’ārof
		5.1 Hierarchy and strategies of Ta’ārof
		5.2 Inside and outside
	6. Conclusion
	References
Transience
	1. Introduction
	2. Disciplinary triage
	3. Transience and the study of language and social life
	4. Transience as a complexifying heuristic
	5. Closing remarks
	Acknowledgments
	References
Cumulative index