Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has previously held positions at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading. He is the author of Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (2000), Pragmatics (2007; 2nd edition 2014) and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (2012; paperback 2014), all published by OUP, as well as of numerous articles and reviews in leading international journals.

the handbook very successful in promoting recent novel ideas, particularly those that arise from an interdisciplinary approach to central issues in pragmatics.

• I: SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT, FOUNDATIONS, AND THEORIES; PART II: CENTRAL TOPICS; PART III: MACRO-PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION; PART IV: MACRO-PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY/CULTURE; PART V: INTERFACES

Yan Huang is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, and Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He has previously held positions at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Reading. He is the author of Anaphora: A Cross-Linguistic Study (2000), Pragmatics (2007; 2nd edition 2014) and The Oxford Dictionary of Pragmatics (2012; paperback 2014), all published by OUP, as well as of numerous articles and reviews in leading international journals.

the handbook very successful in promoting recent novel ideas, particularly those that arise from an interdisciplinary approach to central issues in pragmatics.

• I: SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT, FOUNDATIONS, AND THEORIES; PART II: CENTRAL TOPICS; PART III: MACRO-PRAGMATICS AND COGNITION; PART IV: MACRO-PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY/CULTURE; PART V: INTERFACES