Metapragmatics in use / edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Axel Hubler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bublitz, Wolfram.

Hübler, Axel.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 165.

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 165

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Metalanguage.

Physical Description:

vi, 301 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as well as non-verbal) expressions which highlight (meta-)linguistic aspects of ongoing discourse and thus provoke a deviation from the latter's original direction and purpose. All case studies discuss ways and means which interactants employ to resolve diverging pragmatic expectations in communication. The papers analyze authentic examples from English and other languages (and cultures), including Thai, Chinese and Japanese, and center around three principal domains of communication: ordinary everyday interaction, interaction in educational contexts and in specialized discourse. The introductory chapter locates the various contributions within a systematically broader theoretical framework. The wide scope of the collection, its empirical orientation and the reader-friendly form of presentation should appeal to anyone interested in pragmatics, whether scholar or student.

Contents:

"Don't blame me for criticizing you

" / Krisadawan Hongladarom

Facework and multiple selves in apologetic metapragmatic comments in Japanese / Barbara Pizziconi

Metapragmatic function of quotative markers in Japanese / Satoko Suzuki

Metapragmatic utterances in computer-mediated interaction / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen

On the metapragmatics of gestures / Axel Hubler

Language shift in conversation as a metapragmatic comment / Hartmut Haberland

Metapragmatic comments in institutional talk / Anna Ciliberti and Laurie Anderson

Metapragmatic expressions in physics lectures / Sara W. Smith and Xiaoping Liang

The acquisition of metapragmatic abilities in preschool children / Juliane Stude

So your story now is that ... / Richard W. Janney

A metapragmatic examination of therapist reformulations / Peter Muntigl

Building common ground through metapragmatic comments in international project work / Hermine Penz.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612151927

9781282151925

1282151924

9789027291240

9027291241

OCLC:

648331561