ISBN:
3110193663
Language:
English
Pages:
354 p.
Series Statement:
Mouton Series in Pragmatics 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Explorations in Pragmatics
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics. Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psychology, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and communication. Recent theoretical and empirical advances in these fields has motivated scholars to reexamine and revise some of the central tenets of pragmatics, and it is this reexamination which lies at the heart of the papers in this volume.
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; What is language: Some preliminary remarks; Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung; The role of explicature in communication and in intercultural communication; Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization; "A good Arab is not a dead Arab - a racist incitement": On the accessibility of negated concepts; Developing pragmatics interculturally; Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca; Language evolution, pragmatic inference, and the use of English as a lingua franca
Description / Table of Contents:
On non-reductionist intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedureFrom downgrading to (over) intensifying: A pragmatic study in English and French; Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of cooperation; Backmatter;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1515/9783110198843
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