Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Pragmatics and philosophy -- 2. Back to negative particulars: A truth-conditional pragmatic account -- 3. Colour adjectives, compositionality, and true utterances -- 4. Talk about the future -- 5. Illocutionary effects, presupposition, and implicature -- II. Pragmatics and cognition -- 6. Is implicit communication a way to escape epistemic vigilance? -- 7. The structure of utterance meaning: how did it come about? -- 8. The role of Theory of Mind, grammatical competence and metapragmatic awareness in irony comprehension -- III. Pragmatics and linguistic analysis -- 9. Theoretical and methodological issues in the research into implicit arguments in Hungarian -- 10. The Pragmatics of 'Yes' and 'No' -- 11. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence: On the interpretation of future tense in Modern Greek -- 12. Redundancy effects in discourse: On the modal particle-combinations 'halt eben' and 'eben halt' in German -- IV. Conversation analysis -- 13. The pragmatics of intelligible pronunciation: Preemptive and reactive segmental repair in English as a lingua franca interactions in Japan -- 14. The interactional functions of four repair operations in Hungarian -- Index