Subject: books on pragmatics

john benjamins publishing would like to call your attention to the following new titles in the field of pragmatics : handbook of pragmatics manual & annual supplements jef verschueren , jan - ola ostman , jan blommaert & chris bulcaen ( university of antwerp / university of helsinki ) manual 1994 . xiv , 658 pp . us / canada : hb : 1-55619 - 503 - 6 price : usd 160 . 00 rest of the world : hb : 90 272 5081 2 price : nlg 320 , - - supplement 1995 . 336 pp . + binder us / canada : 1-55619 - 511 - 7 price : usd 97 . 00 rest of the world : 90 272 2157 x price : 194 , - - supplement 1996 . vi , 268 pp . us / canada : 1 55619 512 5 price : usd 79 . 00 rest of the world : 90 272 2158 8 price : nlg 158 , - - supplement 1997 . ca . 320 pp . us / canada : 1 55619 527 3 price : usd 89 . 00 rest of the world : 90 272 2173 1 price : nlg 178 , - - the handbook of pragmatics aims to provide easy access for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language to the different topics , traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics , broadly conceived as " the cognitive , social and cultural study of language and communication " . the handbook of pragmatics will be an annually updated state-of - the-art publication . the main body of the handbook will be produced in loose-leaf format in a handsome 3 - ring binder and will be accompanied by a bound manual , which will contain all necessary background information and user guidelines . this manual will be the first installment of the handbook . within the subsequent five years , the loose-leaf handbook will form the basis of the handbook proper giving an overview of the sub-fields , traditions , methodologies and concepts of pragmatics . after this phase , the handbook will continue to be expanded , topics will be dealt with in depth and updated annually . the project is thus a unique work of reference that guarantees to be always a state-of - the-art source book for researchers . current issues in relevance theory villy rouchota and andreas h . jucker ( eds ) 1998 . xii , 368 pp . pragmatics & beyond ns 58 us / canada : hb : 1 55619 821 3 price : usd 75 . 00 rest of the world : hb : 90 272 5072 3 price : nlg 150 , - - the eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central issues in the relevance theoretic research programme since the 1995 publication of the second edition of sperber and wilson 's relevance . communication and cognition . several papers investigate the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning in order to account for the semantics of discourse connectives , for the role of intonation in utterance interpretation , and for focus phenomena . other papers explore the role of the relevance theoretic notion of metarepresentation in utterance interpretation and prove its usefulness in the study of both linguistic topics such as epistemic modality and conditional clauses , and in the reanalysis of literary issues such as verbal humour . some of the central pragmatic issues dealt with are the interpretation of semantically underdetermined linguistic forms , the role and nature of pragmatic inference , the distinction between truth-conditional and non-truth - conditional meaning and the separation between explicitly and implicitly communicated meaning . the theory 's application to sociolinguistic topics is assessed and developed in an inspired account of phatic communication ; and the theory 's usefulness in accounting for certain types of " grammatical " constraints is explored in relation to certain restrictions in the interpretation of indefinite descriptions . contributions by : richard breheny ; carmen curco ; victoria escandell - vidal ; thorstein fretheim ; corinne iten ; manuel leonetti ; eun - ju noh ; anna papafragou ; villy rouchota and andreas h . jucker ; michiko takeuchi ; vladimir zegarac . bernadette martinez - keck tel : ( 215 ) 836-1200 publicity / marketing fax : ( 215 ) 836-1204 john benjamins north america e-mail : bernie @ benjamins . com po box 27519 philadelphia pa 19118-0519 check out the john benjamins web site : http : / / www . benjamins . com
