LINGUIST List 22.573 Wed Feb 02 2011 FYI: Call for Book Proposals: Pragmatic Interfaces Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Valerie Hall , Call for Book Proposals: Pragmatic Interfaces Message 1: Call for Book Proposals: Pragmatic Interfaces Date: 30-Jan-2011 From: Valerie Hall <vhallequinoxpub.com> Subject: Call for Book Proposals: Pragmatic Interfaces E-mail this message to a friend Edited by: Enikő Németh T. (University of Szeged), nemethenhung.u-szeged.hu Dániel Z. Kádár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), kadarznytud.hu Károly Bibok (University of Szeged), kbiboklit.u-szeged.hu Description: In the last two decades it has become increasingly clear that language and language use cannot be studied separately and independently of each other. This new approach assumes an interaction between grammar (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and semantics) and pragmatics. An analysis of the interfaces between each component of grammar and pragmatics (the ‘interface view’) can also be applied to hard-pragmatics and soft-pragmatics research. Hard-pragmatics studies the field of language use from philosophical, linguistic and logical points of view, while soft-pragmatics explores phenomena of language use from a social and socio-cultural perspective. The definitions hard- and soft-pragmatics, adopted around the 1980s, have become somewhat dated since pragmatics has become a field of its own, and so these two trends have merged to some extent. Also, various pragmaticians made important attempts to blend these approaches. Nevertheless, a border between these areas continues to exist: hard-pragmaticians rarely venture into socio-pragmatic issues, and, vice versa, soft-pragmatic studies rarely make use of formal tools of hard-pragmatics. The Pragmatic Interfaces series fills an important knowledge gap in the field of pragmatics as the first major publication project devoted to studying grammar-pragmatics interfaces and merging of soft-pragmatics with hard-pragmatics. Through this merging many pragmatic phenomena could be essentially revisited. The Pragmatic Interfaces series follows an interdisciplinary approach, allowing scholars from different areas of grammar and pragmatics to collaborate. In the Pragmatic Interfaces Series 2 volumes are published per annum. The first volumes will include the following titles: Dániel Z. Kádár ed. (with Enikő Németh T. and Károly Bibok), Politeness: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Jan 2012). Enikő Németh T. ed. (with Károly Bibok and Dániel Z. Kádár), Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: The Case of Implicit Arguments (Sep 2012). Károly Bibok ed. (with Enikő Németh T. and Dániel Z. Kádár), New Trends in Lexical Pragmatics (Jan 2013). Call for papers for these edited volumes will be circulated soon. Prospective authors and guest editors with interest in the Series are welcomed to contact the Editors. Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Feb-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.