This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing and cross-pollination between disciplines is natural, as well as necessary, but at times it seems important to take a pause and reflect on and problematize the role of pragmatics at these interfaces. In an age when disciplinary boundaries are being blurred, we need to investigate the relationship and interplay between pragmatics and related or complementary fields of enquiry with the goal of broadening and deepening our understanding of the contributions and boundaries of pragmatics as such. Here in twelve original contributions, internationally recognized authorities explore the current state and future trends in Pragmatics vis-à-vis adjacent disciplines.

• Pragmatics and its Interfaces
• Editorial page
• Title page
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• Table of contents
• Introduction: Pragmatics and its interfaces
  • References
• Sociolinguistics vs pragmatics: Where does the boundary lie?
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics as separate areas of research
    • 1.2 Sociolinguistics
    • 1.3 Pragmatics
    • 1.4 Sociopragmatics
  • 2. Critical or social realism
  • 3. Egalitarianism
  • 4. Self-promotion
  • 5. The “gender order”
  • 6. Conclusion
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  • References
• The interface between pragmatics and Conversation Analysis: The interface between pragmatics and Conversation Analysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Implicature
  • 3. Speech acts
  • 4. Presuppositions and well-formedness
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Pragmatics vs rhetoric: Political discourse at the pragmatics-rhetoric interface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Target of the present study
  • 3. Pragmatics and rhetoric revisited
    • 3.1 The pragmatics-rhetoric interface
    • 3.2 Interfacing the pragmatics and the rhetoric of political discourse
  • 4. Pragma-rhetorical approach to political discourse
    • 4.1 Contextualisation through meaning negotiation and re-negotiation in political interviews
    • 4.1 Contextualisation through meaning negotiation and re-negotiation in political interviews
    • 4.2 Metadiscourse framing strategies in question-answer sequencing in parliamentary debates
    • 4.2 Metadiscourse framing strategies in question-answer sequencing in parliamentary debates
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Narrative studies versus pragmatics (of narrative): Narrative studies versus pragmatics (of narrative)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Getting the story told: The bottom-up perspective
  • 3. What stories do: The top-down perspective
  • 4. Stories in story slots
  • 5. Direct and indirect force for stories
  • 6. Tentative conclusions
  • References
• Translation studies and pragmatics
  • Introduction
  • 1. Taking a closer look at ‘context’
  • 2. Translation as a communicative event involving re-contextualization
  • 3. Functional equivalence in re-contextualisation
  • 4. The cultural filter and contrastive pragmatics
  • 5. Translation as re-contextualisation and English as a lingua franca
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• The interface between pragmatics and gesture studies: The interface between pragmatics and gesture studies
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pragmatics and the study of gesture
  • 3. The data
  • 4. Cohesion and reference
    • 4.1 Para level reference
    • 4.2 Meta level reference
  • 5. Repetition
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Pragmatics and anthropology: The Trobriand Islanders’ ways of speaking
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Three puzzling observations
  • 3. The Trobriand Islanders’ ways of speaking
    • 3.1 The Trobriand Islanders’ greeting behavior and the lessons in pragmatics learned
    • 3.1 The Trobriand Islanders’ greeting behavior and the lessons in pragmatics learned
    • 3.2 A case of emotion control and the lessons in pragmatics learned
    • 3.3 Making peace with Ibova and the lessons in pragmatics learned
  • 4. Pragmatics and anthropology
  • References
• Integrative pragmatics and (im)politeness theory: Integrative pragmatics and (im)politeness theory
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of pragmatics in politeness theory
  • 3. Integrative pragmatics
  • 4. Case study: Jocular abuse and offence
    • 4.1 User and observer perspectives on the use of the n-word
    • 4.2 Pragmatics, (im)politeness and conventionalization: The case of the n-word
    • 4.2 Pragmatics, (im)politeness and conventionalization: The case of the n-word
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Corpus linguistics and pragmatics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Case study: Indicative was and subjunctive were in as-if clauses – a case of empathetic deixis?
  • 2. Case study: Indicative was and subjunctive were in as-if clauses – a case of empathetic deixis?
    • 2.1 Introduction
    • 2.2 Data
    • 2.3 Methods
    • 2.4 Results
  • 3. Discussion
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
• The interface between pragmatics and internet-mediated communication: The interface between pragmatics and internet-mediated communication: Applications, extensions and adjustments
  • 1. Introduction: Pragmatics
  • 2. Pragmatics of internet-mediated communication
  • 3. Beyond discourse comprehension: Non-intended non-propositional effects and contextual constraints
  • 4. Layers of pragmatic analysis of Internet-mediated communication
    • 4.1 Layer 1: User and contextual constraints
    • 4.2 Layer 2: User to user by means of discourse
    • 4.3 Layer 3: User to user in interaction
    • 4.4 Layer 4: User to audience
    • 4.5 Layer 5: User in a group of users
    • 4.6 Layer 6: User and non-intended no-propositional effects
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Pragmatics, humor studies, and the study of interaction: Pragmatics, humor studies, and the study of interaction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Contributions of pragmatics to humor studies
  • 3. Contributions of humor studies to pragmatics
    • 3.1 Humor and contextualization processes
    • 3.2 Humor and identity
    • 3.3 Humor and the negotiation of social relationships
  • 4. Future interfaces
  • References
• Index