Publications

Book title: Pragmatics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (2005)

Author/publisher: Louise Cummings, Edinburgh University Press

Description: This book offers an original analysis of the current state of linguistic pragmatics. It is argued that no study of pragmatics can reasonably neglect the historical and contemporary influences on this discipline of neighbouring fields of enquiry, particularly, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence and language pathology. By the same token these fields can begin to address their own questions more productively by examining the insights of pragmatics.

Book title: The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia (2010)

Author/publisher: Louise Cummings, Routledge

Description: Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a multidisciplinary field that encompasses a range of theoretical and empirical concerns. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia captures the diversity of these intellectual interests in a comprehensive, single-volume edition. The Routledge Pragmatics Encyclopedia covers concepts and theories that have traditionally been associated with pragmatics, but also recent areas of development within the field, scholars who have had a significant influence on pragmatics, interdisciplinary exchanges between pragmatics and other areas of enquiry and all major research trends.