Foundations Of Pragmatics

Author : Wolfram Bublitz,Neal R. Norrick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214253

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Foundations of Pragmatics by Wolfram Bublitz,Neal R. Norrick Pdf

Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories as well as concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The articles provide both state of the art reviews and critical evaluations of research in pragmatics. Topics are thus not only considered within their scholarly context but are also critically evaluated from current perspectives.

Author : Laurence Horn,Gergory Ward
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470756713

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The Handbook of Pragmatics by Laurence Horn,Gergory Ward Pdf

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.

Author : Nicole Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027243387

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Pragmatics in Speech and Language Pathology by Nicole Müller Pdf

The selected contributions in this volume bring together applications of pragmatics in speech and language pathology, as well as discussions of the applicability of different theoretical strands of the study of human linguistic interaction and its cognitive bases to the field of communication disorders. The authors address practical issues in the classification, assessment and treatment of pragmatic disorders both in developmental and acquired contexts. Further major concerns are the theoretical foundations of clinical pragmatics (such as linguistic pragmatics, functional approaches to language analysis, and cognitive science), and the development of clinical pragmatics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1090050126

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gunter Senft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444180312

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Understanding Pragmatics by Gunter Senft Pdf

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific conventions and the speech events in which they are embedded. From a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective, this book: debates the core issues of pragmatics such as speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis, gesture, interaction strategies, ritual communication, phatic communion, linguistic relativity, ethnography of speaking, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, languages and social classes, and linguistic ideologies incorporates examples from a broad variety of different languages and cultures takes an innovative and transdisciplinary view of the field showing linguistic pragmatics has its predecessor in other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, ethology, ethnology, sociology and the political sciences. Written by an experienced teacher and researcher, this introductory textbook is essential reading for all students studying pragmatics.

Author : Jeroen A. G. Groenendijk,Dick de Jongh,Martin J. B. Stokhof
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111042480

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Foundations of Pragmatics and Lexical Semantics by Jeroen A. G. Groenendijk,Dick de Jongh,Martin J. B. Stokhof Pdf

Author : Dale A. Koike,J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429849343

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The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics by Dale A. Koike,J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them. Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including: • Discourse • Variation; Culture and interculture • (Im)politeness; humor • Learning contexts and teaching • Technology This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.

Author : Jacques Moeschler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394634

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Non-Lexical Pragmatics by Jacques Moeschler Pdf

This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, can be viewed as paradigms, that is, sets of concepts, procedures and results which structure scientific investigations. The main purpose of the book is to defend a new post-Gricean approach to the substantial lexicon and to the functional lexicon (tenses, connectives), and more specifically to explore lexical and non-lexical pragmatics. A precise approach to lexical and non-lexical pragmatic contents will be developed, with special emphasis on non-lexical temporal and causal information. A model for inferring temporal relations in discourse (the directional inferences model based on French data) is developed. This approach to temporal representations and inferences will be completed by a discussion on how causal inferences are triggered in discourse interpretation. The role of conceptual causal relations, as well as causal procedural information encoded in discourse connectives (mainly parce que ‘because’, donc ‘therefore’, et ‘and’), is empirically and theoretically supported. Pragmatic theory can be described as a very powerful interface system which gives access to lexical and functional information, and which contains rich pragmatic enrichment processes, for non-lexical information (quantifier, tenses, connectives) as well as for lexical information (event predicates). The book’s originality stems from its demonstration that pragmatic enrichment is structurally constrained, and occurs at the level of explicature.

Author : Istvan Kecskes,Laurence R. Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198843

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Explorations in Pragmatics by Istvan Kecskes,Laurence R. Horn Pdf

The papers in this volume reflect current trends in international research in pragmatics over recent years. The unique feature of the book is that the authors coming from ten different countries represent all aspects of pragmatics and address issues that have emerged as the result of recent research in pragmatics proper and neighboring fields such as cognitive psychology, philosophy, and communication. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology, intercultural communication and bilingual pragmatics have directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination and revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. In addition, cultural changes originating from globalization have affected the relation of language to the wider world. In particular, the spread of English as a global language has led to the emergence of issues of usage, power, and control that must be dealt with in a comprehensive pragmatics of language. Pragmatic theories have traditionally emphasized the importance of intention, rationality, cooperation, common ground, mutual knowledge, relevance, and commitment in the formation and execution of communicative acts. The new approaches to pragmatic research reflected in this volume, while not questioning the central role of these factors, extend the purview of the discipline to allow for a more comprehensive picture of their functioning and interrelationship within the dynamics of communication. The papers address these issues from a variety of directions. In Part I, Searle and Horn examine language use and pragmatics from a philosophical perspective. In Part II, the cognitive aspect of pragmatics is represented in the papers of Moeschler, Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi, and Giora. They focus on well-known domains such as illocutionary constructions, the pragmatics of negation, and the relevance-theoretic concept of explicature. However, each paper sheds new light on the familiar concepts. The papers in Part III by Mey, Kecskes and Grundy discuss the intercultural aspects of pragmatics while Terkourafi explores the explanatory potential of an interpretation of Grice's Cooperative Principle. Margerie's and Geeraert & Kristiansen's articles focus on the application of usage-based methodology in different ways within pragmatics.

Author : Danielle Matthews
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270443

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Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition by Danielle Matthews Pdf

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In the 35 years since the first edited volume on the topic, a flourishing literature has reported on the broad set of skills that can be called pragmatic. This volume aims to bring that literature together in a digestible format. It provides a series of succinct review chapters on 19 key topics ranging from preverbal skills right up to irony and argumentative discourse. Each chapter equips the reader with an overview of current theories, key empirical findings and questions for new research. This valuable resource will be of interest to scholars of psychology, linguistics, speech therapy, and cognitive science.

Author : Yan Huang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199697960

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The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics by Yan Huang Pdf

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.

Author : Dell Hymes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1974-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0812210654

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Foundations in Sociolinguistics by Dell Hymes Pdf

A highly influential scholar urges that linguistics be studied as part of the entire communicative conduct of social groups and demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines, such as sociology, social anthropology, and education.

Author : A. Benz,G. Jäger,R. Van Rooij,Robert Van Rooij
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230285897

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Game Theory and Pragmatics by A. Benz,G. Jäger,R. Van Rooij,Robert Van Rooij Pdf

Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to Gricean pragmatics is followed by contributions offering a high-level survey of current GDT pragmatics and the field of its applications, demonstrating that this approach provides a sound basis for synchronic and diachronic explanations of language use.

Author : Peter Grundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444116984

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Doing Pragmatics by Peter Grundy Pdf

Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterised the previous editions, the third edition is fully revised and expanded. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real data and examples. New chapters include pragmatic inference and language evolution, and intercultural pragmatics. Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to 'do' pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those studying linguistics and ELT.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110431070

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Pragmatics of Social Media by Christian Hoffmann,Wolfram Bublitz Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.