Huang - Pragmatics

The continuing demand for my Pragmatics necessitates a new edition. In this second edition, while the aim, readership, and overall structure of the first edition are retained, the material in the entire book has been thoroughly revised, refreshed, and updated to reflect the continuing, rapid development of pragmatics since the publication of the first edition, thus rendering the whole text more forward-looking. In terms of coverage, the most notable change is that a new chapter on reference has been added to . Where appropriate, works in experimental pragmatics and in lexical pragmatics have also been added to various chapters throughout the entire book. In compensation for these additions, some of the less important content contained in the first edition has been condensed or even removed. This edition contains an even richer collection of cross-linguistic data drawn from a wider range of the worlds languages than the first edition. Finally, the key concepts, exercises, and essay questions, and further readings sections at the end of each chapter, and the glossary, references, and suggested solutions to exercises sections at the end form important parts of this book, and consequently they too have been revised, updated, and slightly expanded.

Auckland, New Haven, Cambridge MA, and Beijing	Y. H.
July 2013

A number of people have contributed to the preparation of this second edition. I am particularly grateful to Barbara Abbott and Fred Kroon for reading through the chapter on reference, and to Bart Geurts for reading through the section on embedded (conversational) implicature while they were in draft. Thanks to their very insightful comments, the chapter and the section have been improved significantly. I owe a debt of gratitude to Abdullah al-Saqqaf, Guohua Chen, David Cram, Michael Haugh, Larry Horn, Richard Larson, Steve Levinson, and Yian Wu for helping me in one way or another. My thanks also go to Sara Amani, Beidi Li, and Danyang Zheng for their assistance with the references section.

I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation to Hae-Yun Lee for translating the first edition into Korean, Puteri Roslina Abdul Wahid for translating it into Malay, and to Ziran He and Yaxin Wu for writing an introduction to the Chinese reprint of that edition. I would also like to thank Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone, Cedric Ginestet, Gregory Glasgow, the late Robert Harnish, Stacia Levy, Dunlai Lin, Yunqing Lin, Chaoqun Xie, and Ren Zhang for reviewing the first edition in various journals of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, the International Cognitive Linguistics Association Book Reviews, and the Linguist List.

Since the publication of the first edition, portions of the material, especially the new material, contained in this edition have been presented to various audiences at the Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, Aalborg Universitet, Anhui University, Universiteit Antwerpen, University of Auckland, Universitt Augsburg, University of the Basque Country, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing Normal University, University of Cambridge, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Communication and Media University of China, National Dong Hwa University, East China Normal University, Finnish National Graduate School in Language Studies (Langnet), Freie Universitt Berlin, Fujian Medical University, Fujian Normal University, Fuyang Teachers College, Fuzhou University, Universit de Genve, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Harvard University, Hefei University of Technology, University of Helsinki, Henan University, University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Polytechnic University, Hsuan Chuang University, Hunan University, Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Jiangxi Normal University, Universit de Kairouan, Kansai University, Kyoto Prefectural University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Uniwersytet odzki, University of London, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Universidade de Macau, Universitt Mainz, Nankai University, University of Nanking/Nanjing, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, University of New South Wales, Ninbo University, University of North Carolina, Universit dOrlans, University of Oxford, Peking University, Universitt Regensburg, Rice University, San Francisco State University, Seoul National University, Shandong University, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shih-Hsin University, Soochow University, Tsinghua University (Beijing), National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu), Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, University of Waikato, Victorian University of Wellington, Xian International Studies University, Yale University, Zhejiang University, and Zhengzhou University. I have benefited from the comments received on all these occasions. I wish to extend my gratitude to all the people who have invited me. In addition, I am indebted to the undergraduate and graduate students at the universities of Reading, Oxford, and Auckland, and the PhD students at Beijing Foreign Studies University who attended my (advanced) courses on semantics and pragmatics in which some of the new material was tested.