Context and appropriateness : micro meets macro / edited by Anita Fetzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fetzer, Anita, 1958-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 162.

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 162

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Context (Linguistics).

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Acceptability (Linguistics).

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context and appropriateness from interdisciplinary perspectives. The papers use different theoretical frameworks, such as situation theory, speech act theory, cognitive pragmatics, sociopragmatics, discourse analysis, argumentation theory and functional linguistics. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.

Contents:

Context and Appropriateness

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction

Context, contexts and appropriateness

I. Bridging problems between context and appropriateness

Similar situations

Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue

Appropriateness: An adaptive view

II. Bridging problems between communicative action and appropriateness

If I may say so: Indexing appropriateness in dialogue

The appropriateness of questions

Cooperative conflict and evasive language: The case of the 9-11 commission hearings

III. Bridging problems between micro and macro

The attenuating conditional: Context, appropriateness and interaction

Collaborative use of contrastive markers: Contextual and co-textual implications

Index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152900

9781282152908

1282152904

9789027292254

9027292256

OCLC:

191935089