Aiming to provide easy access to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, this supplementary part of the "Handbook of Pragmatics" gives an overview of the subfields, traditions, methodologies and concepts of pragmatics.

1. Bilingualism and multilingualism (by Heller, Monica); 2. Case and semantic roles (by Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida); 3. Channel (by Slembrouck, Stef); 4. Code-switching (by Eastman, Carol M.); 5. Context and contextualization (by Auer, Peter); 6. Conversational implicature (by Lakoff, Robin T.); 7. Correlational sociolinguistics (by Dittmar, Norbert); 8. Creoles and creolization (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 9. Culture (by Sarangi, Srikant); 10. Functional sentence perspective (by Sgall, Petr); 11. Hermeneutics (by Van de Craen, Piet); 12. Honorifics (by Irvine, Judith T.); 13. Interlanguage pragmatics (by Kasper, Gabriele); 14. Intercultural communication (by Hinnenkamp, Volker); 15. Language policy, language planning and standardization (by Herbert, Robert K.); 16. Mass media (by Jucker, Andreas H.); 17. Phatic communion (by Senft, Gunter); 18. Register (by Dittmar, Norbert)