Cognitive Pragmatics
Table of contents
Introduction
Hans-Jörg Schmid and Dirk Geeraerts
Part I: The cognitive principles of pragmatic competence
'Pragmatic' principles
1) Implicature and explicature
Robyn Carston, UCL
2) Inferencing and reasoning
Murray Singer, Manitoba
3) Relevance (and other interpretative principles)
Yan Huang, Reading
'Semantic' principles
4) Conceptual principles and relations
Malgorzata Fabiszak, Poznan
5 ) Contextual salience and active zones
John Taylor, Otago
6) Encyclopaedic knowledge and cultural models
Istvan Kecskes, Albany
Part II: The psychology of pragmatics
Processing and Acquisition
7) The processing of pragmatic information in discourse
Ted Sanders, Utrecht
8) The role of salient meanings in processing
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv
9) The acquisition of pragmatic competence
Daniela O’Neill, Waterloo
Disorders
10) Pragmatic disorders
Louise Cummings, Nottingham
11) Autism from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective
Anne Reboul, CNRS
12) Communication with aphasic patients
Suzanne Beeke, UCL
Part III: The construal of meaning-in-context
Non-explicit meaning in context
13) Shared knowledge, mutual understanding and meaning negotiation
William Horton, Northwestern Univ.
14) Conventional and conversational implicature
Jacques Moeschler, Geneva
Non-literal meaning in context
15 ) Figurative meaning in discourse
Alice Deignan, Leeds
16) Irony and humour
Geert Brône, KU Leuven
17) Gestures and paralinguistics
Cornelia Müller, Frankfurt/Oder
Part IV: The emergence of linguistic structures from meaning-in-context
18) Emergent and usage-based models of grammar
Peter Harder, Kopenhagen
19) Grammaticalization and lexicalization
Manfred Krug, Bamberg
20) Sociopragmatics of language change
Terttu Nevalainen, Helsinki
21) The semantics of pragmatic expressions
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Manchester