Frontmatter -- 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