Handbook of Pragmatics 1999 Installment Author:Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Ostman, Jan Blommaert, Chris Bulcaen "The Handbook of Pragmatics" provides easy access - for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language - to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly conceived as "the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and co... more »mmunication".The Handbook of Pragmatics is an annually updated state-of-the-art publication.« less