The Pragmatics Of Revision

Author : Siobhan Chapman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030412685

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The Pragmatics of Revision by Siobhan Chapman Pdf

This book presents the first full-length study of the stylistically experimental and influential novelist George Moore’s (1852-1933) repeated acts of rewriting. Moore extensively and repeatedly revised and re-issued many of his major works, sometimes years or even decades after they were initially published. This monograph provides new insights into how this process shaped and determined his work, and by extension into the creative significance of literary rewriting more generally. It also offers the first sustained application of linguistic pragmatics, the study of meaning in interaction, to the work of a single author, opening up questions about how analytical paradigms developed in pragmatics can explain how rewriting can affect the interactive relationship between a literary text and its readers. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of pragmatics, stylistics, literary history, English literature and Irish literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : author, Codadu Pratap
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789350874431

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Conversational Persuasion as the Principle for a Veri-pragmatic Revision in our Ordinary Language Conceptualizations by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louise Cummings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521888455

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Clinical Pragmatics by Louise Cummings Pdf

A critical examination of the current state of our knowledge of pragmatic disorders. It provides a comprehensive overview of the main concepts and theories in pragmatics, examines the full range of pragmatic disorders that occur in children and adults and discusses how they are assessed and treated by clinicians.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Elly Ifantidou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110431056

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Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics by Klaus P. Schneider,Elly Ifantidou Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.

Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031301605

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The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and Pragmatics by Istvan Kecskes Pdf

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broadens the scope of the field with an intent to incorporate not only L1 communication but also intercultural communication, and communication in a second language. The author integrates the pragmatic view of cooperation and the cognitive view of egocentrism and emphasizes that both cooperation and egocentrism are manifested in all phases of communication, albeit to varying extents. SCA places equal importance on the social and cognitive individual factors in pragmatics. The author claims that while (social) cooperation is an intention-directed practice that is governed by relevance, (individual) egocentrism is an attention-oriented trait dominated by salience. The book serves as a theoretical guide for researchers and students who would like to understand how we need to change first language-based theories to make sense of what happens not only in L1 but also in intercultural and multi-lingual interactions.

Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814706584

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American Bodies by Tim Armstrong Pdf

Contributors from areas including history, literary and cultural studies, and film studies look at the body as a cultural construct configured by politics, gender, racial categories, fears of pollution, and commercial forces that exploit and regulate it, from the 19th century to the present. They examine subjects such as sailor tattoos, maritime cannibalism, birth control, anorexia, boxing, cyberpunk, and plastic surgery. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Tim Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521599970

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Modernism, Technology, and the Body by Tim Armstrong Pdf

This book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links between modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers, including Yeats, Henry James, Eliot, Stein, and Pound. Armstrong shows how modernist texts enact experimental procedures which have their origins in nineteenth-century psychophysics, biology, and bodily reform techniques, but within a context in which the body is reconceived and subjected to new modes of production, representation and commodification. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the received oppositions between technology and literature, the instrumental and the aesthetic, by demonstrating the leaky boundaries and complex interconnections between these domains. This book offers a cultural history of modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745692616

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On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered byHabermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on theLinguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer apreliminary view of what would become The Theory of CommunicativeAction, and they form an excellent introduction to Habermas's ideasabout communication and society. They lay out the generalparameters of Habermas's project in an accessible way, and situatehis work in relation to other theories of society, particularlythose of Edmund Husserl, Wilfrid Sellars, and LudwigWittgenstein. Two additional essays elaborating the themes of the lectures arealso included in this volume. 'Intentions, Conventions, andLinguistic Interactions' is an essay in the philosophy of actionthat focuses on the validity of social norms and examines theconceptual connections between rules, conventions, norm-governedaction, and intentionality. 'Reflections on CommunicativePathology' addresses the question of deviant processes ofsocialization and contains an analysis of the formal conditions ofsystematically distorted communication. This book was designed as a companion to On the Pragmatics ofCommunication (1998), which took pieces from Habermas's later workto create a systematic introduction to his theory of formalpragmatics.

Author : Eric McCready
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Semantics an
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198702849

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Reliability in Pragmatics by Eric McCready Pdf

This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information acquired through language. E. McCready provides a detailed account of the phenomena of hedging and evidentiality and analyses them using tools from game theory, dynamic semantics, and formal epistemology. Hedging is argued to be a mechanism used by speakers to protect their reputations for cooperativity from damage inflicted by infelicitous discourse moves. The pragmatics of evidential use is also discussed in terms of the histories of interaction that influence reputation: the author argues that past experience with the evidence source indexed by the evidential determines how the process of adding information will proceed. The book makes many new connections between seemingly disparate aspects of linguistic meaning and practice. It will be of interest to specialists in semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language, as well as those in the fields of philosophy and cognitive science with an interest in language and epistemology.

Author : Leslie K. Arnovick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299024

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Diachronic Pragmatics by Leslie K. Arnovick Pdf

The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these “illocutionary biographies” manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in Diachronic Pragmatics highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline.

Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199892655

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Intercultural Pragmatics by Istvan Kecskes Pdf

In Intercultural Pragmatics, the first book on the subject, Istvan Kecskes establishes the foundations of the field, boldly combining the pragmatic view of cooperation with the cognitive view of egocentrism in order to incorporate emerging features of communication.

Author : Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis,Milica Savić,Nicola Halenko
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258465

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Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis,Milica Savić,Nicola Halenko Pdf

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters written by an international array of scholars, the present volume is dedicated to furthering the study of the growing field of L2 email pragmatics and addresses a range of interesting topics that have so far received comparatively scant attention. Utilising both elicited and naturally-occurring data, the research in this volume takes the reader from a consideration of learners’ pragmatic development as reflected in email writing, and their perceptions of the email medium, to relational practices in various email functions and in a variety of academic contexts. As a whole, the contributions incorporate research with learners from a range of proficiency levels, language and cultural backgrounds, and employ varied research designs in order to examine different email speech acts. The book provides valuable new insights into the dynamic and complex interplay between cultural, interlanguage, pedagogical, and medium-specific factors shaping L2 email discourse, and it is undoubtedly an important reference and resource for researchers, graduate students and experienced language teachers.

Author : Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527557352

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Analysing the Pragmatics of Speech Acts in Sitcom and Drama Audiovisual Genres by Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja Pdf

This book provides positive evidence regarding the validity of the language used in sitcom and drama audiovisual genres and its possible applicability to the teaching of pragmatics in English as second and foreign language contexts. The first part of the text includes a description of pragmatics and its components, speech act theories development, and the use of audiovisual input for the teaching of pragmatic aspects. The second section is devoted to the sitcom and drama transcripts analysis of direct and indirect realisations of multiple speech acts as pragmalinguistic resources, sociopragmatic variables that may influence conversation, such as politeness needs and context, and interactional patterns, including turn-taking, sequences and adjacency pairs. The book provides insightful quantitative and qualitative results which will serve to confirm, along with previous research, the usefulness and validity of this type of input, not only for teaching pragmatics, but also for the development of tasks and activities with different pedagogical outcomes and students’ needs. As such, this volume is a useful resource for pragmaticians and discourse analysis scholars since its complete analysis of transcripts justifies the validity of audiovisual input and its different applications.

Author : Leo Hickey
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853594040

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The Pragmatics of Translation by Leo Hickey Pdf

Pragmatics, often defined as the study of language use and language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve and how they go about achieving it in using language. Such a study is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators. The thirteen chapters in this volume show how translation - skill, art, process and product - is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language, how writers try to be polite, relevant and cooperative, the distinctions they make between what their readers may already know and what is likely to be new to them, what is presupposed and what is openly affirmed, time and space, how they refer to things and make their discourse coherent, how issues may be hedged or attempts made to produce in readers of the translation effects equivalent to those stimulated in readers of the original. Particular attention is paid to legal, political, humorous, poetic and other literary texts.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745692531

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On the Pragmatics of Communication by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

This volume brings together Habermas's key writings on language and communication. Including some classic texts as well as new material which is published here for the first time, this book is a detailed and up-to-date introduction to Habermas's formal pragmatics, which is a vital aspect of his social theory. Written from 1976 to 1996, the essays show the extent to which formal pragmatics underpins Habermas's theory of communicative action. They are presented in chronological order, so that the reader can trace developments and revisions in Habermas's thought. The volume includes a critical discussion of Searle's theory of meaning, and Richard Rorty's neopragmatism. It concludes with Habermas's recent defence of his theory of communicative action, in which he reaffirms his view that interpretative understanding inescapably involves evaluation. This book will be an indispensable text for students and academics who want a clear and accessible introduction to the development of Habermas's theory of communication and its relation to his broader social and political theory.