Defining Pragmatics 1st Edition by Mira Ariel ISBN 978-0521732031 0521732034

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ISBN 10:0521732034

ISBN 13:  978-0521732031

Author: Mira Ariel

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that ‘pragmatics’ simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She reconstitutes the field, defining grammar as a set of conventional codes, and pragmatics as a set of inferences, rationally derived. The book applies this division of labor between codes and inferences to many classical pragmatic phenomena, and even to phenomena considered ‘beyond pragmatics’. Surprisingly, although some of these turn out pragmatic, others actually turn out grammatical. Additional intriguing questions addressed in the book include: why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics? Why is there no grand design behind grammar nor behind pragmatics? Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?

Table of contents: 

1 What’s under the big-tent pragmatics?

1.1 A taste of big-tent pragmatics

1.2 How big-tent pragmatics was born

1.3 Where Defining Pragmatics should take us

Part I Deconstructing pragmatics

2 Surveying multiple-criterion definitions for pragmatics

2.1 Meaning criteria

2.1.1 Context dependence

2.1.2 Nontruth conditionality

2.1.3 Implicit and secondary

2.2 Analytic criteria

2.2.1 Discourse unit

2.2.2 Extragrammatical accounts

2.2.3 Acceptability judgments

2.2.4 Naturalness

2.3 Cognitive criteria

2.3.1 Performance

2.3.2 Right-hemisphere specialization

2.3.3 Inference

2.4 On the convergence between the different criteria

3 Problematizing the criteria

3.1 Meaning criteria

3.1.1 Context dependence

3.1.2 Nontruth conditionality

3.1.3 Implicit and secondary

3.2 Analytic criteria

3.2.1 Discourse unit

3.2.2 Extragrammatical accounts

3.2.3 Acceptability judgments

3.2.4 Naturalness

3.3 Cognitive criteria

3.3.1 Performance

3.3.2 Right-hemisphere specialization

3.3.3 Inference

Part II Reconstituting pragmatics

4 Grammar as code, pragmatics as inference

4.1 A definition of convenience: pragmatics as a list of canonized topics

4.2 Grammar as code, pragmatics as inference

4.3 What’s behind grammar versus pragmatics?

4.3.1 A Procrustean Bed: minimalistic ‘what is said’s

4.3.2 The functions of the code/inference distinction

5 Inferential pragmatic theories

5.1 Gricean principles

5.2 Neo-Gricean principles

5.3 Relevance Theory

Part III Mapping the big tent

6 The canon

6.1 Deixis and reference

6.2 Speech acts

6.3 Meaning determination

6.4 Presupposition

6.5 Intonation

6.6 Topicality and discourse structure

6.7 Implicatures and explicated inferences

7 Functional syntax

7.1 The added value of constructions

7.2 Extragrammatical functions associated with constructions

7.3 Encoded construction meanings

7.4 Code, and inference too

7.5 Complex form-function correlations

7.5.1 What’s the relevant construction?

7.5.2 Code or inference?

8 Beyond pragmatics

8.1 Politeness

8.2 Stance

8.3 Nonliteral references

8.4 Interactional patterns

8.5 Discourse styles

8.6 Sociolinguistic variation

8.7 Psycholinguistic phenomena

9 Many questions, some resolutions

9.1 Recapitulating the main argument

9.2 Why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish grammar from pragmatics, and what’s the problem with Occam’s Razor?

9.3 Why is there no grand design behind grammar and behind pragmatics?

9.4 Do we now have more grammar or more pragmatics?

9.5 Are all extragrammatical phenomena pragmatic?

9.6 What’s the status of grammatical pragmatics?

9.6.1 An argument for a separate grammatical pragmatic status

9.6.2 An argument against a separate grammatical pragmatic status

9.7 Summary

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