Panther K. Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022. — XXIV, 283 p. — (Cognitive Linguistics in Practice Series, Volume 4).This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought, e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy, the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning, in particular, indirect speech acts, to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally, the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure, communicative function, and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.Abbreviations and symbols
Corpora and online dictionaries
List of tables and figures
About the author
ForewordCognitive linguistics and pragmatics
Cognitive-pragmatic motivation of language structure and use
The role of inference in the construction of meaning: Entailment and presupposition
Principles guiding communication: The role of implicature
Implicature, entailment, and presupposition: Differences and commonalities
Talking as action: Speech act theory
Metaphor: A figure of iconic and analogical reasoning
Metonymy: A figure of indexical and associative reasoning
Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts I: Assertives and commissives
Metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts II: Directives, expressives, declarations
Cognitive pragmatics and grammar
EpilogueReferences
Name index
Subject index