Pragmatics Of Discourse

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110375022

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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 : Joan Cutting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134525249

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Pragmatics and Discourse by Joan Cutting Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Leonor Ruiz Gurillo,M. Belén Alvarado Ortega
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271594

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Irony and Humor by Leonor Ruiz Gurillo,M. Belén Alvarado Ortega Pdf

Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse is a complete updated panorama of linguistic research on irony and humor, based on a variety of perspectives, corpora and theories. The book collects the most recent contributions from such diverse approaches as Relevance Theory, Cognitive Linguistics, General Theory of Verbal Humor, Neo-Gricean Pragmatics or Argumentation. The volume is organized in three parts referring to pragmatic perspectives, mediated discourse, and conversational interaction. This book will be highly relevant for anyone interested in pragmatics, discourse analysis as well as social sciences.

Author : Heike Pichler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272188

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The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation by Heike Pichler Pdf

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation demonstrates the theoretical insights that can be gained into both the structure of synchronic language variation and the interactional mechanisms creating it by subjecting discourse-pragmatic features to systematic variationist analysis. Introducing an innovative methodology that combines principles of variationist linguistics, grammaticalisation studies and conversation analysis, it explores patterns of variation in the formal encoding of I DON’T KNOW, I DON’T THINK and negative polarity tags in a north-east England interview corpus. Speakers strategically exploit the formal variability of these constructions to signal subtle meaning differences and to index social identities closely linked to the variables’ and their variants’ functional compartmentalisation in the variety. The methodology, results and implications of this study will be of great interest to scholars working throughout variationist sociolinguistics, grammaticalisation and discourse analysis.

Author : Teun A. Dijk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110826142

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Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse by Teun A. Dijk Pdf

Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse Janua Linguarum. Series Maior.

Author : István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298096

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Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse by István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish Pdf

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).

Author : Lori Czerwionka,Rachel Showstack,Judith Liskin-Gasparro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000411973

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Contexts of Co-Constructed Discourse by Lori Czerwionka,Rachel Showstack,Judith Liskin-Gasparro Pdf

This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume contributes new understandings of how speakers jointly negotiate meanings, contexts, identities, and social positions in interaction. The volume is organized around three key themes in co-construction—co-constructed discourse, pragmatics in discourse, and teaching and assessment of discourse—and builds on the introductory chapter that situates the discussion on context and co-construction as fundamental to understanding meaning-making in interaction. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives across strands of linguistics and education, chapters explore both the contextual elements that frame co-construction processes and the distinct dynamics between action and language use across a wide range of interactional contexts, including sports commentary, interviews, everyday conversation, classroom discourse, and digitally mediated settings. Taken together, the book highlights the impact of Koike’s contributions on existing research in pragmatics and discourse and exhibits the potential for her work to frame scholarship on emerging interactional contexts. This volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse studies, pragmatics, applied linguistics, second language studies, and language education, as well as those interested in interaction across diverse contexts.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Elizabeth Peterson,Turo Hiltunen,Joseph Kern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108873369

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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change by Elizabeth Peterson,Turo Hiltunen,Joseph Kern Pdf

Discourse-pragmatic markers are central to everyday language, yet many aspects of their use and functions remain elusive or under-investigated. Bringing together a global team of leading scholars, this volume presents a representative showcase of work currently being conducted in the field of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, including investigations of features such as uh/um, please, sentence-final is all, and discourse-pragmatic features from a number of languages. The book emphasizes that not only have researchers answered the call to address complex issues such as cross-linguistic reliability, extending research across languages, and expanding and improving on methods and analysis, but that they continue to address perennial questions in the field of language variation and change. With sections on theoretical and methodological issues, innovative variables, and language contact situations, the volume offers a robust overview of best practices for both new and experienced researchers.

Author : Alexandra D'Arcy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265319

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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context by Alexandra D'Arcy Pdf

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory.

Author : Boyd H. Davis,Jacqueline Guendouzi,Reyes Gómez Morón
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443863759

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Pragmatics in Dementia Discourse by Boyd H. Davis,Jacqueline Guendouzi,Reyes Gómez Morón Pdf

Alison Wray notes that “Alzheimer’s Disease affects language in many different ways. Directly, language processing is undermined by damage to the language areas of the brain. Indirectly, language is compromised by short term memory loss, distortions in perception, and disturbed semantic representation . . . All of this makes AD an obvious focus of interest for linguists and in particular, those interested in the field of pragmatics – yet a striking amount of what is published about AD language is written by non-linguists. AD language is independently researched in at least psychology, neuroscience, sociology, clinical linguistics and nursing. Each discipline has its own methods, theories, assumptions and values, which affect the research questions asked, the empirical approach taken in answering them, and how the evidence is interpreted. Without a more reliable holistic picture informed by linguistic and applied linguistic theory and methods, approaches to diagnosis and care risk being constrained, and may result in a less than satisfactory experience for all those whose daily life involves the direct or indirect experience of AD.” This book is an attempt to address some of the above issues noted by bringing together a group of researchers whose work focuses on interaction in the context of dementia. The authors represent the fields of linguistics, clinical linguistics, nursing, and speech pathology, and each chapter draws on methods associated with discourse analysis and pragmatics to examine how people with dementia utilize language in the presence of cognitive decline. In addition, the book seeks to generate academic discussion on how researchers can move forward to focus greater attention on this topic. In particular, this collection will inspire researchers involved in mainstream theoretical linguistics and pragmatics to turn their attention to the discourse of dementia and investigate what it has to say about our knowledge of language theories, and, in addition, to challenge what we know about ourselves as subjective beings.

Author : Helmut Gruber,Gisela Redeker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269232

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The Pragmatics of Discourse Coherence by Helmut Gruber,Gisela Redeker Pdf

Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.

Author : Erich Steiner,Robert Veltman
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014555679

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Pragmatics, Discourse and Text by Erich Steiner,Robert Veltman Pdf

Author : Jan Zienkowski,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207852

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Discursive Pragmatics by Jan Zienkowski,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, social, cultural, variational, or interactional angles, this 8th volume focuses on theories and phenomena at the level of discourse, but leaving aside conversational interaction. It provides the reader with pragmatics-oriented information on discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and critical linguistics, as well as text linguistics and appraisal theory, while introducing other specific approaches to discourse through concepts such as polyphony, intertextuality, genre, and "enonciation." Furthermore, topics such as public discourse, narrative, figures of speech, cohesion and coherence, pragmatic markers, manipulation, and humor, are all dealt with in separate chapters. The binding idea, explained in the introduction, is that discursive pragmatics may serve as a platform for a diversity of perspectives on discourse, as they have emerged not only in the language sciences but also in the humanities and social sciences in general."

Author : Gisle Andersen,Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
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.