{"id":522,"date":"2010-05-27T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T09:36:30","slug":"handbook-of-pragmatics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Handbook of pragmatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Handbook of <\/strong><strong>pragmatics: <\/strong>2006 installment. Ed. by <strong>Jeff Verschueren<\/strong> and <strong>Jan-Ola \u00d6stman<\/strong>. (Handbook of pragmatics 10.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. Pp. vi, 500. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/handbook-of-pragmatics-2006-installment\/oclc\/148653648&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027232359<\/a>. $188.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-linguistics.uni-bayreuth.de\/de\/team\/Anchimbe_Eric\/index.html\"><strong>Eric A. Anchimbe<\/strong><\/a>, <em>University of Bayreuth, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although there are other competing handbooks of pragmatics on the market, this series is unique in that it brings together leading experts in the field and focuses on both traditional and emerging subdisciplines of pragmatics. Published in yearly installments, the<em> <\/em><em>Handbook<\/em><em> of pragmatics<\/em> has catered to linguists\u2019 needs by providing a forum for new ideas that may have initially been treated as marginal. An association with the International Pragmatics Association has helped this series maintain a high standard within the field. Now also available online, the accessibility of this series is optimal: the loose-leaf format makes revised versions of older entries, updates, and new entries easier to retain in an organized manner.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 installment follows the overall purpose of the series, which is to \u2018search for <em>coherence<\/em>, in the sense of cross-disciplinary intelligibility, in this necessarily interdisciplinary field of scholarship\u2019 as described by Jeff Verschueren in the introductory chapter of the <em>Handbook of pragmatics: <\/em><em>Manual<\/em> (Jan Ola \u00d6stman &amp; Jan Blommaert [eds.], Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995). The eighteen contributions in this installment investigate issues that range from traditional pragmatic notions such as speech act theory and conversation analysis to less studied topics such as interjections. Divided into three sections, this installment contains an updated users\u2019 guide that replaces the 2005 version completely, the traditional updates section consisting of revisions of core notions and frameworks in pragmatics, and the handbook A\u2013Z.<\/p>\n<p>There are seven contributions in the traditional updates section: \u2018Analytical philosophy\u2019 (<strong>Marina Sbis\u00e0<\/strong>), \u2018Applied linguistics\u2019 (<strong>Britt-Louise Gunnarsson<\/strong>), \u2018Conversation analysis\u2019 (<strong>Rebecca Clift<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Drew<\/strong>, and <strong>Ian Hutchby<\/strong>), \u2018Creole linguistics\u2019 (<strong>Pieter Muysken<\/strong> and <strong>Genevieve Escure<\/strong>), \u2018Critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis\u2019 (<strong>Ruth Wodak<\/strong>), \u2018Speech act theory\u2019 (Marina Sbis\u00e0), and \u2018Structuralism\u2019 (<strong>J\u00fcrgen Van de Walle<\/strong>, <strong>Dominique Willems<\/strong>, and <strong>Klaas Willems<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The remaining eleven entries are in the handbook proper and include: \u2018Communication\u2019 (<strong>Peter Harder<\/strong>), \u2018Cultural scripts\u2019 (<strong>Cliff Goddard<\/strong>), \u2018Default interpretations\u2019 (<strong>Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt<\/strong>), \u2018Gender\u2019 (<strong>Robin T. Lakoff<\/strong>), \u2018Historical pragmatics\u2019 (<strong>Andreas H. Jucker<\/strong>), \u2018Interactional linguistics\u2019 (<strong>Jan Lindstr\u00f6m<\/strong>), \u2018Interjections\u2019 (<strong>Felix K. Ameka<\/strong> and <strong>David P. Wilkins<\/strong>), \u2018Negation\u2019 (<strong>Matti Miestamo<\/strong>), \u2018Repair\u2019 (<strong>Jack Sidnell<\/strong>), \u2018Sequence\u2019 (Jack Sidnell), and \u2018Truthfulness\u2019 (<strong>Jocelyne V. Marrelli<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The contributions in this installment present both general overviews of particular fields and detailed discussions of specific topics, which focus on state-of-the-art advances and recently developed areas of research. The combination of expert and introductory knowledge allows specialists in pragmatics as well as students and beginners in the field to be comfortable reading the articles. The contributors seem to keep in mind the <em>Handbook<\/em>\u2019s definition of pragmatics as \u2018the cognitive, social, and cultural study of language and communication\u2019 (Jeff Verschueren, <em>Handbook of pragmatics: <\/em><em>Manual<\/em>). Written in a clear style and with suitable illustrations, the <em>Handbook<\/em><em> of pragmatics<\/em> adds an invaluable wealth of research to the field and should occupy a favored position on syllabi and reading lists for pragmatics courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handbook of pragmatics: 2006 installment. Ed. by Jeff Verschueren and Jan-Ola \u00d6stman. (Handbook of pragmatics 10.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006. Pp. vi, 500. ISBN 9789027232359. $188. Reviewed by Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany Although there are other competing handbooks of pragmatics on the market, this series is unique in that it brings together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}