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Metapragmatics in Use

Author : Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027254092
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Metapragmatics in Use by : Wolfram Bublitz

Download or read book Metapragmatics in Use written by Wolfram Bublitz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as well as non-verbal) expressions which highlight (meta-)linguistic aspects of ongoing discourse and thus provoke a deviation from the latter s original direction and purpose. All case studies discuss ways and means which interactants employ to resolve diverging pragmatic expectations in communication. The papers analyze authentic examples from English and other languages (and cultures), including Thai, Chinese and Japanese, and center around three principal domains of communication: ordinary everyday interaction, interaction in educational contexts and in specialized discourse. The introductory chapter locates the various contributions within a systematically broader theoretical framework. The wide scope of the collection, its empirical orientation and the reader-friendly form of presentation should appeal to anyone interested in pragmatics, whether scholar or student.

Reflexive Language

Author : John A. Lucy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521351642
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Language written by John A. Lucy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These innovative essays represent a critique of those researchers in the humanities and social sciences who fail to take language seriously.

Foundations of Pragmatics

Author : Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110214261
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Foundations of Pragmatics by : Wolfram Bublitz

Download or read book Foundations of Pragmatics written by Wolfram Bublitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open publication Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories and approaches as well as key concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the traditional and most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The in-depth articles provide reliable orientational overviews useful to researchers, students, and teachers. They are both state of the art reviews of their topics and critical evaluations in the light of subsequent developments. Topics are thus considered within their scholarly context and also critically evaluated from current perspectives. The five major sections of the handbook are dedicated to the Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations (with a historiographic overview of the establishment and subsequent development of pragmatics), Key Topics (investigating indexicality, reference and other concepts that were the first to make their way from grammar into pragmatics and mainstream notions like speech acts, types of inference), the Place of Pragmatics in the Description of Discourse (delimiting pragmatics from grammar, semantics, prosody, literary criticism), and Methods and Tools.

Metapragmatics of Humor

Author : Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266379
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Metapragmatics of Humor by : Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo

Download or read book Metapragmatics of Humor written by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic context; Metapragmatic awareness of humor across textual modes; and Metapragmatic practices within the acquisition of humor. Thus, this book provides an up-to-date panorama of this field, where metapragmatic abilities are described in adults as well as in children, on humorous and non-humorous genres — jokes, cartoons, humorous monologues, parodies, conversation, Twitter —, and using several approaches, such as GTVH, multimodality, conversational analysis, eye-tracking methodology, etc.

Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English

Author : Ulrich Busse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725625X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English by : Ulrich Busse

Download or read book Investigations Into the Meta-communicative Lexicon of English written by Ulrich Busse and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication.

Metapragmatics and the Chinese Language

Author : Xinren Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527588491
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Metapragmatics and the Chinese Language written by Xinren Chen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents how Chinese people communicate with various meta-level expressions for different purposes across contexts. It demonstrates empirically how the use of these expressions contributes to the management of meaning generation, interpersonal relating and discourse organization. It will serve to shed light on the understanding of how Chinese people monitor their speech in the course of communication, and will function as an important reference for researchers and students who conduct cross-linguistic comparative or contrastive metapragmatic research concerning Chinese and other languages.

The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Author : Jenny Arendholz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110427567
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then by : Jenny Arendholz

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then written by Jenny Arendholz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of quoting as a meta-communicative act in various forms of old (printed) and new (electronically mediated) communication, setting it apart from (seemingly) related acts like repeating or referring. Recent interest in the formal (copy-paste quoting) and ethical (quoting as plagiarizing) aspects of quoting has been gaining considerable momentum in linguistics (and other disciplines), predominantly fuelled by enormous technological progress and the impact on both the procedure of quoting itself and its appraisal in public discourse. Embracing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, the authors pay special tribute to the inherent complementarity of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. With contributions pinpointing the formal and functional evolution of quoting and tracing trends in linguistic variation, this volume brings together interpersonal pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical, cognitive and text linguistics as well as cultural studies. In this way, the present title provides a more comprehensive and integral understanding of the nature of quoting.

Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English

Author : Ulrich Busse
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027274614
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English by : Ulrich Busse

Download or read book Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English written by Ulrich Busse and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication.

Methods in Pragmatics

Author : Andreas H. Jucker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110424924
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Methods in Pragmatics by : Andreas H. Jucker

Download or read book Methods in Pragmatics written by Andreas H. Jucker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108656226
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language by : Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language written by Piotr Stalmaszczyk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of language is central to the concerns of those working across semantics, pragmatics and cognition, as well as the philosophy of mind and ideas. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics. Chapters are grouped into thematic areas and cover a wide range of topics, from key philosophical notions, such as meaning, truth, reference, names and propositions, to characteristics of the most recent research in the field, including logicality of language, vagueness in natural language, value judgments, slurs, deception, proximization in discourse, argumentation theory and linguistic relativity. It also includes chapters that explore selected linguistic theories and their philosophical implications, providing a much-needed interdisciplinary perspective. Showcasing the cutting-edge in research in the field, this book is essential reading for philosophers interested in language and linguistics, and linguists interested in philosophical analyses.

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319434918
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use written by Keith Allan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.

Semiotic Mediation

Author : Elizabeth Mertz
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483288862
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Semiotic Mediation written by Elizabeth Mertz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approx.394 pages

Metalanguage

Author : Adam Jaworski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110907372
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Metalanguage written by Adam Jaworski and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage. Drawing on a variety of data sources such as lay and linguists' metalanguage, the media, parliamentary debates, education, and retail shopping, the book comprises four sections and an integrative commentary. The main thematic parts deal with metalanguage in relation to the following issues: the theory of metalanguage, ideology, social evaluation, and stylisation. Other key themes discussed include constructionism, identity formation, in- and out-grouping, deception, discrimination, manipulation, and the increasing semiotisation of the socio-cultural landscape. Apart from the strictly linguistic concerns, some contributions focus on discourse in a broader sense examining meta-commentary construed in modalities other than language. The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and social semiotics. The broad range of theoretical issues and accessible style of writing will appeal to advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and in other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities including linguists, communication researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, social psychologists, critical and social theorists. The book includes chapters by Deborah Cameron, Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasinski, Peter Garrett, Adam Jaworski, Tore Kristiansen, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Dennis Preston, Theo van Leeuwen, Kay Richardson, Itesh Sachdev, Angie Williams, and John Wilson.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Author : Michael Haugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108957390
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics written by Michael Haugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team of leading editors and contributors, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of the key concepts, topics, settings and methodologies involved in sociopragmatic research. The chapters are organised in a systematic fashion, and span a wide range of theoretical research on how language communicates multiple meanings in context, how it influences our daily interactions and relationships with others, and how it helps construct our social worlds. Providing insight into a fascinating array of phenomena and novel research directions, the Handbook is not only relevant to experts of pragmatics but to any reader with an interest in language and its use in different contexts, including researchers in sociology, anthropology and communication, and students of applied linguistics and related areas, as well as professional practitioners in communication research.

Preformulating the News

Author : Geert Jacobs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283877
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Preformulating the News written by Geert Jacobs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre’s peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features and that this sheds light on the asymmetries of what can be termed the ‘newsmaking’ and ‘news management’ processes. In the first chapter the study of press releases is put in the context of institutional discourse and the details of a linguistic pragmatic research method are proposed. Chapter 2 looks at the complex receiver roles in press releases, which are characterized as indirectly targeted, i.e. ‘projected’, discourse. In chapters 3 to 6 a data analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases is presented: in particular, it is shown that self-reference, pseudo-quotation and explicit semi-performative play a ‘preformulating’ role in press releases. Chapter 7 offers a case study of the press releases that the American multinational Exxon issued in the wake of the 1989 Alaska oil spill. In the eighth and final chapter it is suggested that the study’s findings support a hegemonic view of the media. In analysing the much neglected genre of press releases, the book aims to contribute to the study of the language of the news. At the same time, it explores more general issues of participation and footing as well as reflexive language, including deixis, reported speech and performativity.

A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare

Author : Sarah Bigi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249377
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare written by Sarah Bigi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable healthcare systems. The volume is divided into five thematic sections: 1) Analytical approaches to health communication, 2) Intercultural and mediated communication, 3) Negotiation and meaning construction, 4) Expertise and common ground, 5) Uncertainty and evasive answers, bringing together a group of top scholars on the much-debated issue of shared understanding both at the micro-level of dialogues between professionals and patients, and the macro-level of institutional communication. In the variety of its contributions, it represents an ambitious attempt at setting pragmatics at the core of healthcare communication research and practice, by combining conceptual reflections on core topics in the field of pragmatics (among which are speech acts, common ground, ambiguity, implicitness), with discourse and linguistic analysis of real-world examples exploring various problems in health communication.

Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction

Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110766779
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction written by Istvan Kecskes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. Taking into account not only L1 but also intercultural interactions and attempting to bring together the traditional view with the egocentrism-based view of cognitive psychologists, it has been argued that construction of common ground is a dynamic, emergent process. It is the convergence of the mental representation of shared knowledge that we activate, assumed mutual knowledge that we seek, and rapport as well as knowledge that we co-construct in the communicative process. This dynamic understanding of common ground has been applied in many research projects addressing both L1 and intercultural interactions in recent years. As a result several new elements, aspects and interpretations of common ground have been identified. Some researchers came to view common ground as one component in a complex contextual information structure. Others, analyzing intercultural interactions, pointed out the dynamism of the interplay of core common ground and emergent common ground. The book brings together researchers from different angles of pragmatics and communication to examine (i) what adjustments to the notion of common ground based on L1 communication should be made in the light of research in intercultural communication; (ii) what the relationship is between context, situation and common ground, and (iii) how relevant knowledge and content get selected for inclusion into core and emergent common ground.