Frank Liedtke - Böcker

In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has to be considered as a complex utterance level combining semantic knowledge and context-driven, pragmatic information as an integrated whole. The focus of the present book lies on central questions about the nature, the function and the acquisition of pragmatic inferencing strategies. The question of the relation between the explicit and the implicit side of verbal communication and its mutual delimitation is addressed. What is the character of pragmatic inferences, wherever they may be situated in a descriptive model? Are they nonce inferences arising anew in each act of communication, or do we have to conceive of them as based on regularities and conventions? What is an adequate model of the acquisition of the skills which are relevant for mastering the inferential processes leading to an adequate interpretation of utterances? And what is the relation between a theory of pragmatic enrichment and optimality theory with an OT pragmatics as a possible result?

The series Sprache und Wissen [Language and Knowledge] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings. Editorial Board:Markus HundtWolf-Andreas LiebertJuliane SchröterBerbeli WanningIngo H. WarnkeMartin Wengeler

The series Sprache und Wissen [Language and Knowledge] is a publication platform for high-quality papers on German linguistics with interdisciplinary focus. The series takes on current trends in the scientific community from a linguistic perspective in order to show how general and expert knowledge are made possible through language and gain perspective through it. The linguistic treatment of discursive knowledge formats aims to advance the field of linguistics and other sciences interested in language in an innovative way. The series presents papers with semantic, pragmatic, and syntactic approaches from the perspective of variety-specific as well as text- and discourse-linguistic cognitive interest. The series welcomes monographs as well as systematically-structured anthologies and conference proceedings. Editorial Board:Markus HundtWolf-Andreas LiebertJuliane SchröterBerbeli WanningIngo H. WarnkeMartin Wengeler

Pragmatik – ein zentrales Gebiet der Sprachwissenschaft – hat alle Arten des sprachlichen Handelns zum Gegenstand. Ausgehend von den grundlegenden Paradigmen (Sprechakttheorie, Gesprächsforschung, Relevanztheorie etc.) informiert das Handbuch über aktuelle Forschungsbereiche (z.B. Interkulturelle Pragmatik, Experimentelle Pragmatik/Neuropragmatik, Kritische Diskursanalyse) sowie über Forschungsthemen (z.B. Gesten, Lügen, Ellipsen). Schließlich werden unterschiedliche Analysefelder der Pragmatik vorgestellt (z.B. Sprache und Recht, Sprache und Kunst, Wissenschaftskommunikation). Der Band repräsentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand der Pragmatik in der gesamten Breite der Disziplin.