"This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought, e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy, the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning, in particular, indirect speech acts, to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally, the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure, communicative function, and their influence on the grammatical structure of language"--.

• Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Table of contents
• Abbreviations and symbols
  • Symbols and notational conventions
• Corpora and online dictionaries
• List of tables and figures
• About the author
• Foreword
• Chapter 1. Cognitive linguistics and pragmatics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Pragmatics
    • 2.1 Some basic features of contemporary pragmatics
    • 2.2 The semantics-pragmatics dichotomy: Advantages and drawbacks
      • 2.2.1 Meaning and truth conditions
      • 2.2.2 Truth conditions and (lack of) coherence
      • 2.2.3 Non-declarative sentence types
      • 2.2.4 The role of pragmatic inferences in the assignment of truth values
      • 2.2.5 Deixis
      • 2.2.6 Conventional non-truth conditional meanings
      • 2.2.7 Preliminary conclusion
  • 3. A cognitive linguistic view of pragmatics
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Towards a blend of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics
• Chapter 2. Cognitive-pragmatic motivation of language structure and use
  • 1. Introducing the problem
  • 2. Some remarks on the history of motivation
  • 3. Towards a cognitive linguistic view of motivation
    • 3.1 Preliminaries: Types of signs
    • 3.2 Defining motivation
    • 3.3 Motivated, unmotivated, conventional, and non-conventional signs
    • 3.4 Unmotivated conventional signs
    • 3.5 Motivated conventional signs
    • 3.6 Non-conventionally used motivated signs
  • 4. Semiotic types of motivation
    • 4.1 content > form
    • 4.2 content1 > content2
    • 4.3 form > content
    • 4.4 form1 > form2
  • 5. Language-independent factors of motivation
    • 5.1 Sensory-perceptual
    • 5.2 Cultural
    • 5.3 Emotive
  • 6. Demotivation
  • 7. Conclusion
• Chapter 3. The role of inference in the construction of meaning: Entailment and presupposition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic modes of inferencing: Deduction, induction, and abduction
    • 2.1 Deduction
    • 2.2 Induction
    • 2.3 Abduction
  • 3. Entailment
  • 4. Presupposition
    • 4.1 Existential and uniqueness presupposition
    • 4.2 Factive presuppositions
    • 4.3 Evaluative presuppositions
    • 4.4 Suspending or canceling a presupposition
    • 4.5 Negation and presupposition
    • 4.6 Discourse-pragmatic presupposition
    • 4.7 The information status of presupposition
  • 5. Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Principles guiding communication: The role of implicature
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Two models of communication
  • 3. Gricean principles guiding communication
    • 3.1 The Cooperative Principle and the maxims of conversation
    • 3.2 The Maxims of Quantity
    • 3.3 The Maxims of Quality
    • 3.4 The Maxim of Relation (Relevance)
    • 3.5 The Maxims of Manner
  • 4. Reducing the number of maxims: Neo-Gricean approaches and Relevance Theory
    • 4.1 A sketch of Levinson’s and Horn’s models
    • 4.2 The Principle of Relevance
  • 5. In lieu of a conclusion: The influence of cultural practices on maxims of conversation
• Chapter 5. Implicature, entailment, and presupposition: Differences and commonalities
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conventional implicature
  • 3. Conversational implicature
    • 3.1 Suspendability and cancelability
    • 3.2 Non-detachability
    • 3.3 Calculability
    • 3.4 Non-codability of conversational implicatures
    • 3.5 Reinforceability
      • 3.5.1 Reinforceability of implicature
      • 3.5.2 Reinforceability of entailment
      • 3.5.3 Reinforceability of presuppositions
      • 3.5.4 Conclusion: Reinforced implicature, entailment, and presupposition
    • 3.6 Universality vs. culture-specificity of conversational implicatures
      • 3.6.1 Scalar conversational implicatures: A possible universal
      • 3.6.2 Language- and culture-specific implicatures
  • 4. Conclusion
• Chapter 6. Talking as action: Speech act theory
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Folk and expert models of action
    • 2.1 Talk as deficient action
    • 2.2 An expert model of linguistic action: Speech act theory
  • 3. Some examples of infelicitous illocutionary acts (Austin)
  • 4. Searle’s speech act theory
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Felicity conditions and illocutionary types according to Searle
    • 4.3 Illocutionary types
    • 4.4 Distinguishing between illocutionary force and illocutionary verbs
  • 5. Coding illocutionary force and propositional content
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Illocutionary force and propositional content coding: Mood and constituent order
    • 5.3 Illocutionary force coding
      • 5.3.1 Performative verbs
      • 5.3.2 Performatively used nominal expressions
    • 5.4 Propositional content coding
  • 6. Illocutionary scenarios and their components
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Assertives
    • 6.3 Commissives
    • 6.4 Directives
    • 6.5 Expressives
    • 6.6 Declarations
  • 7. Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Metaphor: A figure of iconic and analogical reasoning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Some contemporary approaches to metaphor
  • 3. Metaphor in cognitive linguistics
    • 3.1 Precursors of conceptual metaphor theory
    • 3.2 Lakoff and Johnson’s metaphor theory
  • 4. The role of inferencing in Lakoff and Johnson’s conception of metaphor
    • 4.1 Metaphorical entailments
    • 4.2 The Invariance Principle
    • 4.3 Inferential structure of source and target domain
  • 5. Metaphor and thought
  • 6. Conclusion
• Chapter 8. Metonymy: A figure of indexical and associative reasoning
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metonymy in literary and ordinary language
    • 2.1 Examples of metonymy in literary language
    • 2.2 Examples of metonymy in ordinary language
  • 3. Properties of metonymy
    • 3.1 Situation and context
    • 3.2 Metonymy as an indexical and associative relation
    • 3.3 Metonymy as reasoning within a conceptual frame
    • 3.4 Conceptual distance between source and target
    • 3.5 Contingent relation between source and target
    • 3.6 Pragmatic effects
    • 3.7 Experiential and sociocultural motivation of metonymy
    • 3.8 Transparency of metonymy motivation
  • 4. Metonymy as abductive reasoning
  • 5. Constraining the scope of metonymy
  • 6. Types of metonymy
    • 6.1 Referential metonymies
    • 6.2 Predicational metonymies
    • 6.3 Modificational metonymies
    • 6.4 Grounding metonymies
    • 6.5 Illocutionary metonymies
  • 7. Conclusion
• Chapter 9. Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts I: Assertives and commissives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts
    • 2.1 Assertives
      • 2.1.1 Inferences from before to core
      • 2.1.2 Inference from hedged core to core
      • 2.1.3 Inferences from result to core
      • 2.1.4 Inferences from after to core
    • 2.2 Commissives
      • 2.2.1 Inferences from before to core
      • 2.2.2 Inferences from hedged core to core
      • 2.2.3 Inferences from result to core
      • 2.2.4 Inferences from after to core
  • 3. Conclusion
• Chapter 10. Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts II: Directives, expressives, declarations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Directives, expressives, and declarations
    • 2.1 Directives
      • 2.1.1 Inferences from before to core
      • 2.1.2 Inferences from hedged core to core
      • 2.1.3 Inferences from result to core
      • 2.1.4 Inferences from after to core
    • 2.2 Expressives
      • 2.2.1 Inferences from before to core
      • 2.2.2 Inferences from hedged core to core
      • 2.2.3 Inferences from result to core
    • 2.3 Declarations
      • 2.3.1 Declarations of war
      • 2.3.2 Verdicts and sentences
      • 2.3.3 Religious ceremonies
      • 2.3.4 Resigning from a post
  • 3. Conclusion
• Chapter 11. Cognitive pragmatics and grammar
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preposed negative adverbials and auxiliary inversion
  • 3. Felicitous constraint violations: The Coordinate Structure Constraint
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 The pattern go […] and VP
    • 3.3 The pattern sit down and VP
    • 3.4 The pattern stand up and VP
    • 3.5 The pattern take a step back and VP
  • 4. Syntactic and conceptual mismatches: More on the pragmatics of and
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 From coordination to evaluation: The nice and Adj construction
  • 5. Conclusion
• Chapter 12. Epilogue
  • 1. To recap
  • 2. Themes and prospects
  • 3. Final thoughts
• References
• Name index
• Subject index