"This handbook reviews a large range of different research and data collection methods used in pragmatics. It includes overviews of methods that rely on introspection and rational thinking; and it includes overviews of empirical methods, such as experimentation (various types of production and comprehension tasks); qualitative observational methods (e.g. ethnography or discourse analysis); and quantitative corpus-based methods"--.

• Preface to the handbook series
• Preface
• Table of contents
• I. Introduction
• 1. Data in pragmatic research
• 2. Methods and ethics of data collection
• 3. The art of transcription: Systems and methodological issues
• II. Introspectional pragmatics
• 4. Introduction to part 2: Introspectional pragmatics
• 5. Philosophical pragmatics
• 6. Research methodology in classical and neo-Gricean pragmatics
• 7. Cognitive pragmatics: Relevance-theoretic methodology
• III. Experimentational pragmatics
• 8. Introduction to part 3: Experimentational pragmatics
• 9. Discourse completion tasks
• 10. Assessing the comprehension of pragmatic language: Sentence judgment tasks
• 11. Psycholinguistic production tasks
• 12. Role plays
• IV. Observational pragmatics
• 13. Introduction to part 4: Observational pragmatics
• 14. Ethnographic methods in pragmatics
• 15. Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
• 16. Discourse analysis
• 17. Critical Discourse Analysis
• V. Corpus pragmatics
• 18. Introduction to part 5: Corpus pragmatics
• 19. Corpus construction
• 20. Corpus annotation
• 21. Historical corpus pragmatics
• 22. Corpus pragmatics: From form to function
• 23. Corpus-based function-to-form approaches
• 24. Corpus-based metapragmatics
• Bionotes
• Name index
• Subject index