Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught linguistics at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP 1994, re-issued in 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000) and Pragmatics (OUP 2007). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics planned for publication in 2014.

The first dictionary of pragmatics of its kind ... a valuable asset to both students and researchers interested in the study of linguistic meaning.

• Introduction: what is pragmatics ; Directory of symbols and abbreviations ; The dictionary ; References

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has previously taught linguistics at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading, where he was Professor of Theoretical Linguistics. He has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His books include The Syntax and Pragmatics of Anaphora (CUP 1994, re-issued in 2007), Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (OUP 2000) and Pragmatics (OUP 2007). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics planned for publication in 2014.

The first dictionary of pragmatics of its kind ... a valuable asset to both students and researchers interested in the study of linguistic meaning.

• Introduction: what is pragmatics ; Directory of symbols and abbreviations ; The dictionary ; References