Fresh Perspectives on Major Issues in Pragmatics

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1.

Introduction: New Waves in Pragmatics

Istvan Kecskes and Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Chapter 2.

Can cats pick up chainsaws? The interaction of context and plausibility

Stanley Alexander Donahoo

Chapter 3.

Scalar Implicature through the lens of Distributional Linguistics

Maxime Codere Corbeil

Chapter 4.

"We have a big crowd": The different referents of the first-person plural in U.S. presidential candidates' talk on entertainment-political interviews

Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven

Chapter 5.

Whatever can be meant can be echoed: A comparison of since when questions and echo declarative questions

Angelika Kiss

Chapter 6.

The pragmatics of Japanese quotative constructions: a comparative study between Japanese and Japanese heritage language families

Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon

Chapter 7.

Managing epistemic asymmetry through dialogic resonance in therapy interactions

Rong Lei

Chapter 8.

At-issue or not-at-issue discourse contribution by puisque ('since')? Information structure and discourse structure

Hasmik Jivanyan

Chapter 9.

A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation"

Erika Bellingham, Hanno Beck and Richard Hatcher

Chapter 10.

Pragmatic aspects of translation: a contrastive analysis of translation processes illustrated by inductive-empirical eye-tracking, writing process analysis, and a questionnaire

KyeongHwa Lee