Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction / Dingfang Shu and Ken Turner Part I. Gricean Themes: Gricean and Confucian Pragmatics: A Contrastive Analysis / Michiel Leezenberg Information Structure in PA/SN or Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation: With Reference to Scalar Implicatures / Chungmin Lee Switch-reference in Amele and Logophoric Verbal Suffix in Gokana: A Generalized Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Analysis / Yan Huang Hearer's Aspect in Politeness: The Case of Requests / Saeko Fukushima Part II. Contrast and Cognition: Valency and Cognitive Frames for Three Constructions in Mandarin / Jiaxuan Shen Specialized Grounding in English and Chinese Existentials / Ren Zhang Existentials, Possessives and their Grammaticalization into Perfectives: With Special Reference to Chinese you and English be and have / Lei Zhu A contrastive approach to discourse particles: a case study of the Mandarin UFP ne ? / Chauncey C. Chu Part III. Aspects of Logical Structure: Part IIIa. Aspects of Quantification: Quantified Eventualities in Russian, Czech and Polish: An OT Analysis / Dorota Klimek-Janowska On the Cross-linguistic Correlation Between the Usages of YES/NO Particles and the Presence/Absence of Negative Quantifiers / Katsuhiko Yabushita Part IIIb. Aspects of Modality: A Contrastive Study of the Semantic Functions and Pragmatic Uses of Modal Verbs in English and Chinese / Renzhi Li Modality and Polysemy: Toward an Implicational Map / Marc Duval Part IIIc. Aspects of Demonstratives: On Chinese Numeral Yi and Demonstrative Determiner Na versus English a and the: A Contrastive Analysis in a Discourse-Pragmatics Perspective / Yili Shi Reference and Complex Demonstratives in English and in Finnish / Erkki Ahlström Part IV. Lexical, Constructional and Discourse Semantics: Prohibition: Constructions and Markers / Johan van der Auwera The Pragmatics of Destiny in Russian and English (Towards a Description of Fundamental Cultural Concepts) / Valentina Apresjan Countability in English and Mandarin / Jenny Yichun Kuo and Hunter Jiun-Shiung Wu / Mandarin Gen and French et/avec: Another Look at Distributivity and Collectivity / Marie-Claude Paris The Relation Accompanying Circumstance Across Languages: Conflict between Linguistic Expression and Discourse Subordination? / Bergljot Behrens and Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen Topic Introduction and Referent Accessibility in Chinese and English Narrative Discourse / Yulong Xu Part V. Back to Grice: Conditionals in English and FOPL / Barbara Abbott |
