This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims a

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on meth

An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address sh

The ten volumes of the "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary