Provides a representative picture of the scholarly substance of the successful pragmatics conference held in Antwerp. This volume collects those papers which focus on fundamental questions such as the relationship of pragmatics to grammar and semantics, intentionality and communicative success.

1. Preface; 2. Preschoolers' active search for pragmatic knowledge (by Becker, Judith A.); 3. Children's pragmatic knowledge of narrative tasks (by Bokus, Barbara); 4. Psychopragmatics vs. sociopragmatics: the function of pragmatic markers in thinking-aloud protocols (by Caron-Prague, Josiane); 5. Semantics, pragmatics, and situated meaning (by Cicourel, Aaron V.); 6. Conceptual and semantic co-ordination in children's dialogue (by Clark, Aileen); 7. How much pragmatics and how much grammar: yhe case of Haruai (by Comrie, Bernard); 8. A sociolinguistic model of successful speech act construction (by Connor-Linton, Jeff); 9. Towards a model for generating cleft sentences (by Delin, Judy); 10. Four properties of speech-in-interaction and the notion of translocutionary act (by Duranti, Alessandro); 11. The study of argumentation from a speech act perspective (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 12. Intentional ascription, autisma and trooubles with content (by Gelder, Beatrice de); 13. Children's referential communication in a game situation (by Hedelin, Lisbeth); 14. Towards a computational theory of speech acts (by Smith, Peter); 15. The description of utterances in conversation (by Tsui, Amy B.M.); 16. Primal content and actual content: an antidote to literal meaning (by Wilensky, Robert); 17. References; 18. Index of names; 19. Index of subjects