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Pragmatics

Index of SIL publications on Pragmatics listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Pragmatics available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• BENSON, Bruce, author. 1992. "Pragmática y traducción."  
• BERG, René van den, author. 2008. "Direct and indirect speech: a preliminary questionnaire."  
• EGNER, Inge, author. 1998. Review of: Speech acts and conversational interaction, by Michael L. Geis.
• EGNER, Inge, author. 2004. "Pragmatique de la promesse: une perspective interculturelle."
• ESKHULT, Mats, author. 2004. Review of: Verbal meaning: a linguistic, literary, and theological framework for the interpretive categories of the Hebrew verb as elaborated in the book of Ruth, by Bo-Krister Ljungberg.
• GREGERSON, Kenneth J.; HUTTAR, George L., editors. 1986. Pragmatics in non-Western perspective.  
• HARDIN, Karol J., author. 2001. Pragmatics of Persuasive Discourse of Spanish Television Advertising.  
• HARDIN, Karol J., author. 2010. "Trying to persuade: speech acts in the persuasive discourse of intermediate Spanish learners."  
• HUTTAR, George L., author. 2001. Review of: Meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics, by D. Alan Cruse.
• JONES, Larry B.; KOPESEC, Michael F., authors. 1979. Pragmatics and theme identification.
• KOPESEC, Michael F., author. 1979. The integration of semantic and pragmatic concerns in a hierarchical framework.
• LAFAGE, Suzanne, author. 1986. "Outline of a practical frame of reference for a sociolinguistic analysis in an African context."  
• MANN, William C., author. 2001. Presumptive meanings, by Stephen C. Levinson.
• PAYNE, Doris L., editor. 1992. Pragmatics of word order flexibility.
• SPERBER, Dan; WILSON, Deirdre, authors. 1987. An outline of relevance theory.
• THOMSON, Gregory, author. 1989. What sort of meaning is preserved in translation? Part 3: Pragmatic meaning.
• UNGER, Christoph, author. 2006. Genre, relevance and global coherence: the pragmatics of discourse type.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Burkina Faso

• BLASS, Regina, author. 1990. Relevance relations in discourse: a study with special reference to Sissala.
• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1993. Review of: Relevance relations in discourse: a study with special reference to Sissala, by Regina Blass.

Cameroon

• WINGATE, J. Douglas, author. 1991. How pragmatic is pragmatics?.

Côte d’Ivoire

• EGNER, Inge, author. 1995. "Le rôle de l’intermédiaire dans l’échange de nouvelles en Godié (langue Kru de Côte d’Ivoire)."

Ghana

• NADEN, Anthony J., author. 1986. "Social context and Mampruli greetings."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.

Nigeria

• FOLLINGSTAD, Carl M., author. 1995. "‘Hinnēh’ and focus function with application to Tyap."

Americas

Brazil

• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1982. "Options in the pragmatic structuring of Guaraní sentences."
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1984. Review of: Pragmatics and linguistics: An analysis of sentence topics, by Tanya Reinhart.
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1987. Basic configurations of pragmatic structuring.
• DOOLEY, Robert A., author. 1988. Pragmatics and grammar: Motivation and control.

Canada

• SPIELMANN, Roger W., author. 1988. "What’s so funny? Laughing together in Algonquin conversation."

Colombia

• HEADLAND, Paul, author. 1986. "Social rank and Tunebo requests."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.

Mexico

• PIKE, Evelyn G., author. 1981. "Purpose and discourse structure."

Peru

• HINTZ, Diane M., author. 2003. "La pragmática del orden de las palabras en el quechua del sur de conchucos."
• LOOS, Betty H., author. 1986. "Self-correction in Capanahua narration."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1993. "Meaning and pragmatics of order in selected South American Indian languages."

Suriname

• GLOCK, Naomi, author. 1986. "The use of reported speech in Saramaccan discourse."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.

Asia

Indonesia

• GREGERSON, Kenneth J., author. 1980. "Pragmatics and the search for context in linguistics."
• JONES, Larry B., author. 1979. Pragmatic information in the Fourth Gospel.
• JONES, Larry B., author. 1980. "Pragmatic influences on English written discourse."
• JONES, Larry B., author. 1980. Pragmatic aspects of English text structure.
• JONES, Larry B., author. 1983. Pragmatic aspects of English text structure.  

Nepal

• GLOVER, Warren W., author. 1998. Review of: Aspect, mood, and time in Belhare: studies in the semantics-pragmatics interface of a Himalayan language, by Balthasar Bickel.

Philippines

• HOHULIN, E. Lou, author. 1987. Implicatures and inferences.
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.
• WIENS, Hartmut, author. 1986. "Please be specific: a functional description of noun-marking particles in Limos Kalinga."  

Thailand

• HANNA, William J., author. 1982. "Pragmatics: a question of alternatives."

Pacific

Australia

• HUDSON, Joyce, author. 1986. "An analysis of illocutionary verbs in Walmatjari."  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.
• SAYERS, Barbara J., author. 1999. "A pragmatic analysis of a failed cross-cultural communication."
• SWARTZ, Stephen M., author. 1989. "Evaluating translation naturalness: a functional look at Warlpiri narrative text, particularly with regard to zero anaphora and word order."

Papua New Guinea

• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1990. Review of: Pragmatics in non-Western perspective, George L. Huttar and Kenneth J. Gregerson, editors.
• REESINK, Gerard P., author. 1986. "Being negative can be positive."