1. Discourse pragmatics: signposting a vast field
1. The focus of the present volume and the underlying notion of discourse
The present handbook is one of nine volumes in the series Handbooks of Pragmatics. This series, the most comprehensive of the series of handbooks of pragmatics to date, is thematically organised and includes contributions exclusively written for this series. Each handbook is a stand-alone volume with its own specific place in the series. A certain degree of overlap between volumes is also explicitly endeavoured. This third volume belongs to the set of the first three handbooks which cover the most fundamental areas in pragmatics as it is defined for this handbook series (cf. the series ...
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