Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Socio-cognitive and experimental pragmatics -- 2. The emergence of common ground -- 3. Overcoming differences and achieving common ground: Why speaker and hearer make the effort and how they go about it -- 4. "Is there a tumour in your humour?": On misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversational humour -- 5. Notes for a restrictive theory of procedural meaning -- 6. Deniability and explicatures -- 7. The acquisition of loanword pragmatics: An exploration -- 8. (Im)politeness: Metalinguistic labels and concepts in English -- Part II: Philosophical and discourse pragmatics -- 9. What lies beyond: Untangling the web -- 10. The true provenance of self-reference: A case for salience-based contextualism -- 11. Transparent reports as free-form idioms -- 12. How speaker meaning, explicature and implicature work together -- 13. Temporally closed situations for the Chinese perfective LE 了 -- 14. Acategorical pragmatic markers: From thematic analysis to adaptive management in discourse -- 15. Contrastive discourse relations in context: Evidence from monologic and dialogic editing tasks -- 16. Pragmatics and multimodality. A reflection on multimodal pragmastylistics -- Part III: Interpersonal and societal pragmatics -- 17. Pragmatic competence and pragmatic variation -- 18. Offers in English -- 19. The intercultural speaker abroad -- 20. Pragmatics and children's literature -- 21. Unloading the weapon: Act and tact -- 22. The meanings and contents of aesthetic statements -- Index