Frank Brisard
List of John Benjamins publications in which Frank Brisard is involved.
Online Resources
E‑ISSN 1877‑9646
Handbook of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Pedro Gras, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
E‑ISSN 1877‑9611
Yearbook
Journal
Pragmatics
Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Edited by Helmut Gruber
ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
Book series
Handbook of Pragmatics
Edited by Frank Brisard, Jana Declercq, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
ISSN 1877-9611
Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment
Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
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… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment
Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt
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… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] 2024. xiii, 273 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment
Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard
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… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 26] 2023. xiii, 187 pp.
Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment
Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke
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… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] 2022. xiii, 256 pp.
The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research
Edited by Timothy Colleman, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34] 2020. vii, 382 pp.
Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality
Edited by Adeline Patard and Frank Brisard
This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 29] 2011. ix, 319 pp.
Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics
Edited by Frank Brisard, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional,… read more[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 5] 2009. xiii, 308 pp.
Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele
This volume unites various contributions reflecting the intellectual interests exhibited by Professor Herman Parret (Institute of Philosophy, Leuven), who has continued to observe, and often critically assess, ongoing developments in pragmatics throughout his career. In fact, Parret’s contributions… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 127] 2004. vi, 202 pp.
Bibliography of Pragmatics Online
Edited by Frank Brisard, Michael Meeuwis and Jef Verschueren
This annotated bibliography covers the broad field of linguistic pragmatics, conceived as the interdisciplinary cognitive, social, and cultural - science of natural language use.It incorporates all the bibliographical data from the renowned Comprehensive Bibliography of Pragmatics (1987), edited… read more[Online Resources Collection, BoP] 2003. Over 50.000 records
2026 Chapter 14. Taking stance through grammar: Perfective vs. imperfective aspect Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 384–399 | Chapter
Non-referential uses of deictic expressions are those whose primary motivation does not lie in relating a referent to the situation of speech, but rather in suggesting a particular attitude on the part of the speaker. Together, they can be described as grammatical means of taking stance. They… read more
2023 Chapter 8. Quotative
que
constructions in Spanish: A constructional variational approach Constructions in Spanish, Hennecke, Inga and Evelyn Wiesinger (eds.), pp. 193–223 | Chapter
Construction Grammar is a theoretical approach amenable to accommodating any conventional feature of the meaning or form of a construction as part of its description, including lectal information. This paper provides a constructional analysis of the quotative
que
construction in… read more
2021 Semantic polyfunctionality and constructional networks: On insubordinate subjunctive complement constructions in Spanish Constructional Approach(es) to Discourse-Level Phenomena: Theoretical challenges and empirical advances, Enghels, Renata and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 82–125 | Article
This paper offers an analysis of insubordinate subjunctive complement clauses (ISCs) in Spanish and aims to contribute to the general debate in Construction Grammar on how to deal with a highly pragmatically specified surface form that expresses several meanings. We explore whether the meanings… read more
2020 Introduction: The wealth and breadth of construction-based research The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Introduction
2014 Zero verb marking in Sranan Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
In the Surinamese creole language Sranan, verbs in finite clauses that lack overt TMA-marking are often considered to be ambiguous between past and present interpretations (depending on the lexical aspect of the verb involved) or analyzed as having a perfective value. We claim that these verbs are… read more
2013 A contrastive analysis of the present progressive in French and English Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 846–879 | Article
In this study, we address the semantics of the present progressive constructions in French and English by looking into their present-day uses and their diachronic evolution. Corpus data show that both constructions are frequently used in contemporary English and French to stress the atypical nature… read more
2011 H.P. Grice Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, Sbisà, Marina, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 104–124 | Article
2011 Introduction: Cognitive approaches to tense, aspect, and epistemic modality Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality, Patard, Adeline and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2009 Introduction: Meaning and use in grammar Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics, Brisard, Frank, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Miscellaneous
2009 Adaptability Key Notions for Pragmatics, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 28–47 | Article
2004 Ordinaty time Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret, Brisard, Frank, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele (eds.), pp. 25–41 | Chapter
2004 Introduction: Mind the gap: Pragmatics and cognition today Seduction, Community, Speech: A Festschrift for Herman Parret, Brisard, Frank, Michael Meeuwis and Bart Vandenabeele (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Miscellaneous
2003 Adaptability Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2002 H.P. Grice Handbook of Pragmatics: 2000 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2001 Processing Polysemous, Homonymous, and Vague Adjectives Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. 261–284 | Article
1999 The English Tense-System as an Epistemic Category: The Case of Futurity Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning: Proceedings of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Kee Dong Lee and Eve Sweetser (eds.), pp. 271–286 | Article