Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. Recent publications include Public Information Messages (2012) and Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics (2003). She has also co-edited several volumes, including Pragmatics of Discourse (2014), Variational Pragmatics (2008) and Pragmatics of Irish English (2005), all three co-edited with Klaus P. Schneider. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics.

Yueguo Gu is a Special Title Professor of Linguistics at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Recent publications include Using the Computer in ELT (2006) and Pragmatics and Discourse Studies (2010). He has also edited several series of textbooks and collections of academic papers such as Initial Exploration of Online Education (2004) and Second Exploration of Online Education (2005).

Gerard Steen is Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also the founding director of the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam.

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsContributors1. Pragmatics Broadly Viewed: Introduction Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu and Gerard Steen2. Interdisciplinarity in Pragmatics and LinguisticsJacob L. Mey?Part I: Methods and Modalities Data collection 3. Naturally Occurring Data Andrea Golato4. Elicited DataJ. César Félix-Brasdefer and Maria Hasler-Barker 5. CorporaMartin WeisserNon-verbal communication 6. British Sign Language (BSL) Gary Quinn7. Gesture and Pragmatics: From Paralinguistic to Variably LinguisticAlan Cienki8. ParalanguageTim Wharton?Part II: Established fields Pragmatics and variation 9. Variation and Change: Historical Pragmatics Andreas H. Jucker and Daniela Landert 10. Variational Pragmatics Anne Barron11. Postcolonial PragmaticsEric A. Anchimbe and Richard W. Janney 12. Gender and SociopragmaticsJanet Holmes and Brian King 13. Bilingualism and MultilingualismJasone CenozPragmatics and culture 14. Interlanguage Pragmatics: A Historical Sketch and Future Directions Naoko Taguchi15. Intercultural Pragmatics Alessia Cogo and Juliane House16. Identity and Membership Dorien Van De Mieroop17. Folk PragmaticsDennis R. Preston and Nancy NiedzielskiLinguistic pragmatics 18. Intention (including speech acts) Jesús Navarro19. Temporal reference Kasia M. Jaszczolt20. Formal and Natural Languages: What Logic Tells Us about Natural Language Jacques Moeschler21. Presupposition and Accommodation Jacopo Romoli and Uli Sauerland 22. GrammaticalisationMaría José López-Couso and Elena SeoaneCognition and pragmatics 23. Metarepresentation Nicholas Allott24. RelevanceStavros Assimakopoulos25. Metaphor in PragmaticsMiriam Taverniers26. EnrichmentAlison HallInteractional pragmatics 27. Conversation Hansun Zhang Waring 28. Discourse Rodney H. Jones29. Politeness Dawn Archer30. Reported SpeechIsabelle Buchstaller?Part III Pragmatics across disciplines 31. Clinical Pragmatics Louise Cummings32. Pragmatics and Neurolinguistics Elisabeth Ahlsén33. Doing Ethnography Dorothy Pawluch, Arthur McLuhan and William Shaffir34. Language Use in a Social Semiotic PerspectiveChristian M. I. M. Matthiessen35. Linguistic Pragmatics from an Evolutionary PerspectiveNikolaus RittPart IV Applications 36. Pragmatics a