Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for 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 endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring
fields such as language philosophy communication information science sociolinguistics
second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who
represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic cognitive social and
intercultural paradigms and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share
with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.
