Produktdetaljer
This is an immensely useful and timely book. As we move towards greater interdisciplinarity in our research and as boundaries become fuzzy, students and academics alike wonder about the distinctions and overlaps between neighbouring areas. To have a book that explores this in detail with respect to pragmatics is a hugely valuable resource that I shall personally refer to time and again and I’m sure others will too.
- Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UK,
The work achieves its expressed target, to provide a ‘state of the art overview’ of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of pragmatics in relation to most of the areas of study that it interfaces with. It does this in a ‘bidirectional’ approach, from pragmatics to interface and from interface to pragmatics; in this way, the work manages to give every area its proper dues. Highly recommended for a fascinating overview of the current pragmatic spectrum.
- Jacob L. Mey, University of Southern Denmark,
This volume provides a strong impetus for reassessing both the boundaries and synergies between pragmatics and other disciplines. In this way, it not only offers insights into the current state of the art, but also suggests promising directions for future cross-disciplinary linguistic research.
- Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, University of Pisa, in Prafmatics and Society 10:3 (2019),
Ilie and Norrick have gifted the field of pragmatics with this volume, which provides an excellent overview of the various components of the field. For those who have grappled with how to define “pragmatics”, the answer lies in these very pages.
- Diana Boxer, University of Florida, USA,
This sparking collection of essays shows that pragmatics is in rude health, and making happy links with its scholarly neighbours (some of whom would once have been thought to be too distant for any useful contact). An invaluable map of where pragmatics is now, and where it might and should be going.
- Charles Antaki, Loughborough University, UK,
<i>Pragmatics and its interfaces</i> effectively and vibrantly illustrates the relevance of pragmatics to a vast array of interrelated fields. Because of the wealth and range of data that it draws upon as well as its strong theoretical orientation, the book would serve well as a core reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as the volume has the potential to inspire interdisciplinary studies that help to both ground and enrich the study of pragmatics and to connect pragmatics with a range of related fields
- Juan José Bueno Holle, Independent Researcher, on Linguist List 30.2211 (28 May 2019),