Pragmatics Discourse And Society Volume 1

Author : Niyi Osunbade,Foluke Unuabonah,Ayo Osisanwo,Akin Adetunji,Funke Oni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527573017

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Pragmatics, Discourse and Society, Volume 1 by Niyi Osunbade,Foluke Unuabonah,Ayo Osisanwo,Akin Adetunji,Funke Oni Pdf

This two-volume work speaks to the entire scope of Professor Odebunmi’s research concerns in general pragmatics, medical and clinical pragmatics, literary discourse, critical discourse analysis, applied linguistics and language sociology. Its 52 chapters across both volumes (24 chapters in this volume and 28 chapters in Volume 2) written by established scholars such as Jacob Mey, Paul Hopper, Joyce Mathangwane, and Ming-Yu Tseng, in addition to the honoree, explore the dynamics of the interplay of spatial, temporal, agential and (non-)institutional factors that drive discourse/textual constructions, negotiations and interpretations and sometimes influence human cognition and actions. The volume will appeal to all academics, researchers and students who are interested in the interface of context and meaning in human communication.

Author : Gisle Andersen,Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214420

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Pragmatics of Society by Gisle Andersen,Karin Aijmer Pdf

Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.

Author : Alessandro Capone,Jacob L. Mey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319126166

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Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society by Alessandro Capone,Jacob L. Mey Pdf

This volume is part of the series ‘Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology’, edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers. This volume focuses on societal pragmatics. One of the main concerns of societal pragmatics is the world of language users. We are interested in the investigation of linguistic practices in the context of societal practices (‘praxis’, to use a term used in the Wittgensteinian and other traditions). It is clear that the world of users, including their practices, their culture, and their social aims has to be taken into account and seriously investigated when we deal with the pragmatics of language. It is not enough to discuss principles of language use solely in the guise of abstract theoretical tools. Consequently, the present volume focuses explicitly on the interplay of abstract, theoretical principles and the necessities imposed by societal contexts often requiring a more flexible use of such theoretical tools. The volume includes articles on pragmemes, politeness and anti-politeness, dialogue, joint utterances, discourse markers, pragmatics and the law, institutional discourse, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and culture, cultural scripts, argumentation theory, connectives and argumentation, language games and psychotherapy, slurs, the analysis of funerary rites, as well as an authoritative chapter by Jacob L. Mey on societal pragmatics.

Author : Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446242223

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Discourse Studies by Teun A Van Dijk Pdf

"A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and some of the chapters in this book belong to the most widely read in the field. In its totality, Discourse Studies offers us a 360 degree tour of the field... Nothing in this volume is dated, everything remains mandatory reading for every student and advanced practicioner." - Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University "This very welcome updated second edition will allow Teun van Dijk′s very popular Discourse Studies to consolidate its already strong and central position in the area. Featuring chapters written by so many of the leading scholars it will continue to be a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the discipline of discourse studies for new generations of students." - Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham This book is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook: Is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature. Covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches. Adds two new chapters on ideology and identity. Puts the student at the centre, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading. Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110214406

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Pragmatics of Discourse by Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron Pdf

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

Author : Kehinde A. Ayoola,Akin Odebunmi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic language
ISBN : 9781365137

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Language, Context and Society by Kehinde A. Ayoola,Akin Odebunmi Pdf

Author : Raija Markkanen,Hartmut Schröder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110807332

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Hedging and Discourse by Raija Markkanen,Hartmut Schröder Pdf

Author : Alessandro Capone,Marco Carapezza,Franco Lo Piparo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319721736

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Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy by Alessandro Capone,Marco Carapezza,Franco Lo Piparo Pdf

This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled ‘Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of Language’, contains contributions by philosophers of language on connectives, intensional contexts, demonstratives, subsententials, and implicit indirect reports. The second part, ‘Pragmatics in Discourse’, presents contributions that are more empirically based or of a more applicative nature and that deal with the pragmatics of discourse, argumentation, pragmatics and law, and context. The book presents perspectives which, generally, make most of the Gricean idea of the centrality of a speaker’s intention in attribution of meaning to utterances, whether one is interested in the level of sentence-like units or larger chunks of discourse.

Author : Theresa Catalano,Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030493790

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Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond by Theresa Catalano,Linda R. Waugh Pdf

This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through examples of what its research looks like, delineates various precursors to CDA/CDS and important foundational concepts and theories, and traces its development from its early years until it became established. After the relationship between CDA and CDS is discussed, seven commonly cited approaches to CDA/CDS are outlined, including their connections and differences, their origins and development, major and associated scholars, research focus(es), and central concepts and distinguishing features. After a summary of critiques of CDA/CDS and responses by CDA/CDS scholars, the book provides an overview of its salient connections to other interdisciplinary areas of scholarship such as critical applied linguistics, education, anthropology/ ethnography, sociolinguistics, gender studies, queer linguistics, pragmatics and ecolinguistics. The final chapter describes how scholars use their knowledge of CDA/CDS to make a difference in the world.

Author : Jürgen Jaspers,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289162

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Society and Language Use by Jürgen Jaspers,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.

Author : Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521695572

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Communication Across Cultures by Heather Bowe,Kylie Martin Pdf

Communication Across Cultures explains why speakers from different cultures can often misunderstand each other.

Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3631543794

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Pragmatics Today by Piotr Cap Pdf

The aim of the present volume is to provide the reader with a specimen of the massive and multifaceted research in linguistic pragmatics, as pursued worldwide at the beginning of the 21st century. The book offers a selection of methodological, interpretative and descriptive papers which form a continuum governed by a group of controlling factors: first, the amount of novel theoretical ingredient, second, the degree of interdisciplinarity, and third, the range of application. Accordingly, the volume proceeds from methodological accounts which propose non-standard, often cross-disciplinary reformulations of the existing apparatus of pragmatics, to critical manifestations of the application of broadly accepted and utilized theories. As the collection unfolds, the latter are first applied to the analysis of discourse genres and sub-genres, and later to the study of individual lexicogrammatical phenomena. Throughout the book, language examples draw on an extensive variety of discourses, from political oratory to children's language.

Author : Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443845656

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Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka Pdf

Pragmatics of Semantically-Restricted Domains, the second volume of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, edited by Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, gathers papers which partly complement and develop the first volume, Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Most of the texts collected in this book, representative of advanced independent research and that of an informed exercise in the application of a pragmatic framework, result from the Fourth Symposium on “New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics,” organized at the University of Łódź, Poland, in May 2008. Accepting the inevitable failure of any attempt to pose a strict and clear-cut division between the research area of semantics and that of pragmatics, the volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of data which are best described as “semantically” limited. While Volume One concentrated on speech as a type of action, the present volume, without denying the inherently actional nature of language use, concentrates on limited contexts. Pragmatic phenomena in semantically-restricted domains are addressed from a variety of both theoretical and applied perspectives. The book is divided in three parts. Part One, “Pragmatics, Politics and Ideology,” gathers seven papers centered on issues pertaining to political linguistics. In Part Two, “The Pragmatics of Humour, Power and the Media,” there are eight papers which explore issues of politeness and modesty, pragmatic aspects of mediated and gendered discourse, or dynamicity of power relation in interaction. Part Three, “Focus on Textual Properties,” concentrates on text, excluding political discourse. It integrates discussions of equivalence and specialized translation, intertextual properties and pragmatically-motivated lexical choices in business communication, in law, and in science.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803978456

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Discourse as Structure and Process by Teun A. van Dijk Pdf

What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? The book stresses that both discourse and its mental processing have a social basis and can only be fully understood in relation to social interaction.

Author : Gesine Lenore Schiewer,Jeanette Altarriba,Bee Chin Ng
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394603

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Language and Emotion. Volume 1 by Gesine Lenore Schiewer,Jeanette Altarriba,Bee Chin Ng Pdf

The Handbook consists of four major sections. Each section is introduced by a main article: Theories of Emotion – General Aspects Perspectives in Communication Theory, Semiotics, and Linguistics Perspectives on Language and Emotion in Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary and Applied Perspectives The first section presents interdisciplinary emotion theories relevant for the field of language and communication research, including the history of emotion research. The second section focuses on the full range of emotion-related aspects in linguistics, semiotics, and communication theories. The next section focuses on cultural studies and language and emotion; emotions in arts and literature, as well as research on emotion in literary studies; and media and emotion. The final section covers different domains, social practices, and applications, such as society, policy, diplomacy, economics and business communication, religion and emotional language, the domain of affective computing in human-machine interaction, and language and emotion research for language education. Overall, this Handbook represents a comprehensive overview in a rich, diverse compendium never before published in this particular domain.