ABOUT THIS BOOKThis volume continues the collection of work by Charles J. Fillmore, which he started in 2003. Taken together, the work gathered in these volumes reflects Fillmore’s desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form, meaning, and practice.
Divided into four parts, the papers collected in Volume II explore language in use; semantics and pragmatics; text and discourse; and language in society.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYCharles J. Filmore (1929–2014) was professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Lectures on Deixis, also published by CSLI Publications. Pedro Gras is associate professor of Spanish linguistics at the University of Antwerp. Jan-Ola Östman is professor emeritus of Scandinavian languages at the University of Helsinki. Jef Verschueren is professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Antwerp.