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In:The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series 5] 1987
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 1 January 1987
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
List of contributorsxi
Part I. Introduction
1. The pragmatic perspective3
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2. Four dimensions of language use9
Part II. The Bipersonal Dimension
Introduction29
3. Contextual exploitation of interpretation clues in text understanding: An integrated model31
4. Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations47
5. Minimization and conversational inference61
6. Reference to persons in conversation131
7. Avoiding personal reference in Finnish141
8. Implicit involvement in interactive writing155
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9. Pragmatic formatives179
10. Complaints: A study of speech act behavior among native and non-native speakers of Hebrew195
Part III. The Audience Dimension
Introduction211
11. Context-discourse matching in baby talk213
12. Towards a pragmatic approach to modality: The case of permissive can and may229
13. Communication: Beyond the cognitive approach and speech act theory239
14. Pragmatic factors and strategies in discourse production255
15. The pragmatics of argumentation277
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Part IV. The Layered Dimension
Introduction291
16. A theory of verbal irony and a Chinookan pattern of verbal exchange293
17. Introductions of story characters in interactive and non-interactive narration339
18. Making arrangements: Five-part proposal-acceptance sequences in Dutch telephone conversations357
19. Models in descriptive meaning interpretation367
20. Silent speech acts and their cognitive effects381
Part V. The Temporal Dimension
Introduction393
21. Pragmatics and intonation395
22. Pragmatic as against grammatical factors in the determination of accent placement421
23. Temporal expressions in Korean435
24. Stability and change in VN/NV alternating languages: A study in pragmatics and linguistic typology455
25. Conversational relevance477
26. The pragmatic motivation of syntactic and semantic perspective497
27. Aspects of the interaction of syntax and pragmatics: Discourse coreference mechanisms and the typology of grammatical systems513
28. The pragmatics of indirect anaphors533
29. Communicative reference with pronouns547
30. Processing connectives and the pragmatics of discourse567
31. Cohesion in Hopi narrative581
32. Text understanding and lexical knowledge587
33. Turns at writing: The organization of correspondence613
34. Psychological or communicative reality: On the speaker's point of view649
35. Where is the meaning of verbal discourse?667
Part VI. Foundations and Applications
Introduction683
36. The distinction between pragmatics and semantics685
37. Semantics, pragmatics, and text semiotics695
38. Pragmatics and cognition: On explaining language715
39. Pragmatics and Wittgenstein: Ostensive and non-descriptive definition733
40. Pragmatics and language rehabilitation755
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References771
Index829
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