References

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Chapter 1

Definitions and background

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steven davis (ed.): Pragmatics. A Reader.

Oxford University Press 1991

This is a collection of thirty-five papers, originally published in journals dealing mainly with philosophical issues in the recent history of pragmatics.

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Georgia green: Pragmatics and Natural Language

Understanding. Lawrence Erlbaum 1989

This is an introduction which focuses on linguistic pragmatics as 'the study of understanding intentional human action', with a strong emphasis on grammatical issues.

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Geoffrey leech: Principles of Pragmatics.

Longman 1983

This introductory text presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics, attempting to describe 'principles and maxims of good com-

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municative behaviour'. Pragmatics is defined as 'the study of how utterances have meanings in situations', with an emphasis on the analysis of politeness.

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Stephen c. levin son: Pragmatics.

Cambridge University Press 1983

This widely used introductory text offers several different definitions of pragmatics and presents 'an overview of some of the central tasks that pragmaticists wrestle with'. The emphasis is on linguistic and philosophical issues.

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JACOB mey: Pragmatics: An Introduction. Blackwell 1993

This is a comprehensive introduction to pragmatics as 'the study of the conditions of human language use as these are determined by the context of society'. There is a strong emphasis on the ways in which society's institutions govern the use of language.

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JAN NUYTS andjEF VERSCHUEREN (eds.):

A Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics. Volumes 1-4. John Benjamins 1987

This remarkable resource provides a wide range of references. The very useful diagrams in the Subject Index (pages 51-69) act as a guide to the wide areas of study covered by pragmatics.

Chapter 2 Deixis and distance

ROBERT jarvella and Wolfgang klein (eds.): Speech, Place and Action: Studies in Deixis and Related Topics. John Wiley & Sons 1982

This is a collection of fifteen papers on different aspects of deixis by both linguists and psychologists, incorporating studies on deixis and the blind and in the sign language of the deaf.

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JOHN Lyons : Natural Language and Universal Grammar. Cambridge University Press 1991

Chapters 8 and 9 in this collection of essays provide a lot of insights into the nature of deixis.

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ROGER wales: 'Deixis' in P. Fletcher and M. Garman (eds.): Language Acquisition (2nd edn.) Cambridge University Press 1986

This is a review paper covering studies of the first appearance and development of deictic forms in the early language of young children.

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JURGEN WEISSENBORN and WOLFGANG KLEIN (eds.):

Here and There: Cross-linguistic Studies on Deixis and Demonstration. John Benjamins 1982

This is a collection of fourteen papers on different types of deixis in a wide range of languages.

Chapter 3

Reference and inference •;- >; _;^:

STEPHEN ANDERSON and EDWARD KEENAN: 'Deixis' in

Timothy Shopen (ed.): Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Volume 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press 1985

This paper presents a review of the range of deictic expressions used in a wide variety of languages.

Herbert clark and deanna wilkes-Gibbs: 'Referring as a collaborative process' in Cognition 22, 1986

This important paper presents evidence for the ways in which speakers in conversation collaborate to create referring expressions.

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Giles fauconnier: Mental Spaces.

Cambridge University Press 1994

This is a very original approach to the ways in which we connect words to referents, emphasizing the assumption of shared know­ledge and the role of pragmatic connections.

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talmy givon: Mind, Code and Context: Essays in Pragmatics. Lawrence Erlbaum 1989

This collection of essays covers many topics in pragmatics, including reference (Chapters 5 and 6), from a perspective that emphasizes function (what language is used for).

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JOHN LYONS: Semantics. Volume 1.

Cambridge University Press 1977

Chapter 7, on reference, sense, and denotation, presents a com­prehensive background to the basic issues in the traditional semantic treatment of how words are used to refer.

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Geoffrey nunberg: The Pragmatics of Reference.

Indiana University Linguistics Club 1977

This dissertation uses the idea that words can be shown to have endless possible referents to argue for a pragmatic analysis in which word-meanings cannot be separated from 'knowledge of other kinds of conventions and social practices'.

Chapter 4

Presupposition and entailment

noel burton-roberts: The Limits to Debate. A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition. Cambridge University Press 1989

This book represents one of the few recent attempts to reconsider the basic concepts involved in presupposition.

choon-kyu oh and david dineen (eds.): Syntax and Semantics Volume n: Presupposition. Academic Press 1979

This collection of sixteen papers, plus an extensive bibliography, illustrates the types of controversies surrounding the nature of presupposition. Many are presented in very technical language.

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neil smith andDEiRDRE wilson: Modern Linguistics.

Penguin 1979

Chapters 7 and 8 of this text provide a detailed review of presup­position, entailment, and the role of ordered entailments.

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rob van der sandt: Context and Presupposition.

Croom Helm 1988

This book reconsiders the connection between presupposition, context, and the projection problem.

Chapter 5

Cooperation and implicature