The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access 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, i.e. the science of language use. Also available as Online Resource:https://benjamins.com/online/hop.

• Handbook of Pragmatics. 24th Annual Installment
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Editors’ note
  • Acknowledgments
• User’s guide
  • Introduction
  • The Handbook format
  • About the cumulative index
• Methods
  • Regression analysis
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Building blocks
    • 3.Model 0: Modeling the numeric response variable as a function of one numeric predicting variable
    • 4.Model 1: Modeling the numeric response variable as a function of one categorical predicting variable
    • 5.Model 2: Modeling the numeric response variable as a function of two categorical predicting variables
    • 6.Model 3: Modeling the numeric response variable as a function of two categorical predicting variables that interact
    • 7.Logistic regression
    • 8.Model 4: Modeling the binary response variable as a function of one categorical predicting variable
    • 9.Model 5: Modeling the binary response variable as a function of two categorical predicting variables that interact
    • 10.Model 6: Modeling the binary response variable as a function of two categorical predicting variables that interact with a third categorical variable
    • 11.Independence assumption and mixed effects models
    • 12.Model 8: Modeling the binary response variable as a function of two categorical predicting variables that interact with a third categorical variable and two nested random predicting variables
    • 13.Statistical significance, model planning, and effect size
    • 14.Conclusion
    • References
• Traditions
  • Postcolonial pragmatics
    • 1.Introduction: Confronting the contemporary
    • 2.Pragmatics and postcolonialism: Background
    • 3.Pragmatics
      • 3.1Definitions and descriptions
      • 3.2The archive: Ideology, emancipation and postcolonial interactions
    • 4.Postcolonialism
      • 4.1Description and keywords
      • 4.2Postcolonialism: Towards a theoretical framing
      • 4.3Postcolonialism: The hegemony of English as a language of academic power
      • 4.4Conceptual alliances: Pragmatics tools applied to postcolonial contexts
    • 5.Conclusion: Towards a post-pragmatics?
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Sociology of language
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Industrialization and the (linguistic) division of labor: Smith, Marx, Weber
      • 2.1Adam Smith
      • 2.2Karl Marx
      • 2.3Max Weber
    • 3.Holistic and individualistic approaches
      • 3.1The cement that unites us: Durkheim, Simmel
      • 3.2Positivism and individualism
    • 4.Current directions
    • 5.Institutional frameworks of the sociology of language
    • 6.Final considerations
    • References
• Handbook A–Z
  • Conversational storytelling
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Analytic approaches to storytelling
    • 3.Telling
      • 3.1Story launch
      • 3.2Main story
      • 3.3Recipients’ contributions to the story
    • 4.Story part
      • 4.1Membership categories
      • 4.2Repair
      • 4.3Epistemics
    • 5.Second language storytelling
    • 6.Conclusions
    • References
  • Euphemism
    • 1.Definitions of euphemism
    • 2.Motivations and functions of euphemism
      • 2.1Motivations
      • 2.2Functions
    • 3.Linguistic devices of euphemism
      • 3.1Lexical devices
        • 3.1.1Metonymy-based lexical devices
        • 3.1.2Metaphor-based lexical devices
      • 3.2Phonological and morphological devices
      • 3.3Other linguistic devices
    • 4.Conclusion and future directions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Feminism and language
    • 1.Language and feminism
    • 2.Important concepts
    • 3.The feminist critique of language
    • 4.Early theories
    • 5.Empirical studies
    • 6.Feminist language reforms
    • 7.Women and speaking
    • 8.Reappropriation and resignification of derogatory terms
    • 9.Feminist vocabulary
    • 10.New terminology relating to gender identity and sexual activity
    • 11.Non-sexist language guides
    • 12.Feminist writing
    • 13.Conclusion
    • 14.Topics for future research
    • References
  • Identity
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Modern identities
    • 3.Linguistic identities
    • 4.Writing
    • 5.Conclusions
    • References
  • Nigerian hospital setting discourse
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Medical discourse, pragmatics and doctor-patient interactions in Nigerian hospital settings
    • 3.Themes in Nigerian hospital setting discourse
      • 3.1Alignment with institutional prescriptions
        • 3.1.1Hierarchical communication
        • 3.1.2Structured communication
        • 3.1.3De-routinisation of everyday experiences
        • 3.1.4Communicative and strategic language use
      • 3.2Co-existence of conventional and local linguistic choices
        • 3.2.1The use of medical terminologies
        • 3.2.2Grammatical choices
      • 3.3Socio-cultural, ideological and practice-setting impingements on clinical encounters
      • 3.4Differential orientation to medical and social voices
    • 4.Conclusion
    • References
  • Obscenity, slurs, and taboo
    • 1.The concepts
    • 2.The social dynamics
    • 3.Historical change
    • 4.Connotation and emotional response
    • 5.Homonyms, ambiguity, avoidance, and persistence
    • 6.Abuse and reclamation
    • 7.Insulting slurs
    • 8.Conclusion: Dysphemistic euphemism
    • References
  • Susan Ervin-TrippContext, social interaction and pragmatics
    • 1.Introduction
    • 2.Bilingualism
    • 3.Child language: First and second language acquisition
    • 4.Sociolinguistics
    • 5.Directives in social context
    • 6.Developmental pragmatics
    • 7.More pragmatics and discourse: Conversational narratives, humorous talk, and style-shifting
    • 8.From pragmatics to syntax and grammar acquisition
    • 9.Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
• Cumulative index