Handbook of Pragmatics

1997 installment

Edited by
Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Chris Bulcaen, Jan Blommaert

Benjamins

1999

Abstract

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language — 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.