The papers in this volume reflect current trends in international
research in pragmatics over recent years. The unique feature of the
book is that the authors coming from ten different countries
represent all aspects of pragmatics and address issues that have
emerged as the result of recent research in pragmatics proper and
neighboring fields such as cognitive psychology, philosophy, and
communication. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics
interface, empirical work within cognitive and developmental
psychology, intercultural communication and bilingual pragmatics
have directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination and
revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of
pragmatics. In addition, cultural changes originating from
globalization have affected the relation of language to the wider
world. In particular, the spread of English as a global language
has led to the emergence of issues of usage, power, and control
that must be dealt with in a comprehensive pragmatics of language.
Pragmatic theories have traditionally emphasized the importance of
intention, rationality, cooperation, common ground, mutual
knowledge, relevance, and commitment in the formation and execution
of communicative acts. The new approaches to pragmatic research
reflected in this volume, while not questioning the central role of
these factors, extend the purview of the discipline to allow for a
more comprehensive picture of their functioning and
interrelationship within the dynamics of communication. The papers
address these issues from a variety of directions. In Part I,
Searle and Horn examine language use and pragmatics from a
philosophical perspective. In Part II, the cognitive aspect of
pragmatics is represented in the papers of Moeschler, Ruiz de
Mendoza & Baicchi, and Giora. They focus on well-known domains
such as illocutionary constructions, the pragmatics of negation,
and the relevance-theoretic concept of explicature. However, each
paper sheds new light on the familiar concepts. The papers in Part
III by Mey, Kecskes and Grundy discuss the intercultural aspects of
pragmatics while Terkourafi explores the explanatory potential of
an interpretation of Grice's Cooperative Principle. Margerie's and
Geeraert & Kristiansen's articles focus on the application of
usage-based methodology in different ways within pragmatics.
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