The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

The term social meaning identifies the constellation of traits that linguistic forms convey
about the social identity of their users—for example, their demographics, personality and …

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the
degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person …

Abstract Language is a remarkably efficient tool for transmitting information. Yet human
speakers make statements that are inefficient, imprecise, or even contrary to their own …

" Words (and meaningful silences) matter enormously in our lives. They enable us to
cooperate, collaborate, and ally with one another-as well as to exclude, exploit, and …

Understanding the dynamics that characterize interaction between conversational
participants is a fundamental goal of most theories of socially conditioned language use and …

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise
account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts …

This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity,
gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is …

In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register:
Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”(CRC 1412), we assess the …

In two perception experiments we explore the social indexicality of numerical expressions,
comparing the evaluation of three variants: precise (eg 'forty-nine minutes') vs. explicitly …