Pragmatic Competence

MSP is a timely response to the growing demand of innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavor and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as linguistic philiosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science.