Discursive pragmatics / edited by Jan Zienkowski, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zienkowski, Jan.

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Verschueren, Jef.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 8.

Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 307 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 énonciation. 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.

Contents:

Discursive Pragmatics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface to the series

Acknowledgements

Discursive pragmatics

References

Appraisal

1. Introduction

2. Overview

2.1 Attitude - the activation of positive or negative positioning

2.1.1 Affect

2.1.2 Judgement

2.1.3 Appreciation

2.1.4 Modes of activation - direct and implied

2.1.5 Typological criteria

2.1.6 The interplay between the attitudinal modes

2.2 Intersubjective stance

3. Attitudinal assessment - a brief outline

3.1 Affect

3.2 Judgement

3.3 Appreciation

4. Engagement: An overview

4.1 Dialogic contraction and expansion

4.2 Further resources of dialogic expansion

4.2.1 Acknowledge

4.2.2 Entertain

4.3 Further resources of dialogic contraction

4.3.1 Pronounce

4.3.2 Concur

4.3.3 Disclaim (Deny and Counter)

4.3.4 Disclaim: Deny (negation)

4.3.5 Disclaim: Counter

4.4 Engagement resources - summary

5. Conclusion

Cohesion and coherence

2. Focus on form: Cohesion

3. Cohesion as a condition for coherence

4. Focus on meaning: Connectivity

5. Semantic connectivity as a condition for coherence

6. Coherence: A general view

7. A hermeneutic, context and interpretation dependent view of coherence

8. Coherence as a default assumption

9. Perspectives

Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

1. Definitions

2. Historical note

3. Principles of CL

4. Trends

4.1 Social Semiotics

4.2 Orders of discourse' and Foucauldian poststructuralism

4.3 The socio-cognitive model

4.4 Discourse-Historical Approach

4.5 Lexicometry

4.6 Lesarten" Approach

Enonciation

1. Introduction.

2. Historical overview - from the pre-theoretical to the present phase

2.1 Origins and the pre-theoretical phase

2.2 First phase: Forerunners.

2.2.1 Charles Bally (1865-1947)

2.2.2 Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960)

2.3 Second phase: Main theoretical foundation

2.3.1 Emile Benveniste (1902-1976)

2.4 Third phase: Modern developments

2.4.1 Antoine Culioli (born in 1924)

2.4.2 Oswald Ducrot (born in 1930)

2.4.3 Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (born in 1940)

3. Some basic notions

3.1 Enunciation and enunciator

3.2 Situation/Context

3.3 Subjectivity and deixis

3.4 Reported speech

3.5 Modality and modalization

3.6 Modalities of enunciation (modalités d'énonciation)

3.7 Utterance modalities (modalités d'énoncé)

Figures of speech

2. Ancient rhetoric

3. Contemporary treatments of FSP

3.1 Definition of FSP

3.2 Classification of FSP

4. Across the lines of discipline: The cognitive and communicative role of FSP

Genre

2. Historical precedents

3. Genre research in language studies

3.1 Sydney school

3.2 New Rhetoric

3.3 English for Specific Purposes

4. Issues and debates

4.1 Genre as class

4.2 Stability of genres

Internet sources

Humor

1. Introduction and definition

2. Referential and verbal humor

3. Semantics

3.1 The isotopy-disjunction model

3.2 The script-based semantic theory of humor

3.3 Longer' texts

4. The cooperative principle and humor

4.1 Grice and Gricean analyses

4.2 Humor as non-bona-fide communication

4.3 Relevance-theoretic approaches to humor

4.4 Informativeness approach to jokes

4.5 Two-stage processing of humor

5. Conversation analysis

5.1 Canned jokes in conversation

5.1.1 Preface

5.1.2 Telling

5.1.3 Response

5.2 Conversational humor.

5.2.1 Functional conversational analyses

5.2.2 Quantitative conversational analyses

6. Sociolinguistics of humor

6.1 Gender differences

6.2 Ethnicity and humor

7. Computational humor

8. Cognitive linguistics and humor.

9. Conclusion

Intertextuality

1. From 'literature' to 'text as a productivity which inserts itself into history'

2 Text linguistics on 'textuality'

3. Dialogism and heteroglossia in a social-diachronic theory of discourse

4. Vološinov, pragmatics and conversation analysis: Sequential implicativeness and the translation of the other's perspective

5. Synoptic and participatory views of human activity: Bakhtin, Bourdieu, sociolinguistic legitimacy (and the body)

6. Natural histories of discourse: Recontextualization/entextualization and textual ideologies

Manipulation

1. The ancient technique of rhetoric

2. The twentieth-century nightmare of 'thought control'

3. Manipulation is not inherent in language structure

4. So let's look at thought and social action

4.1 Drumming it in

4.2 Ideas that spread

5. What might override the cheat-checker?

6. Conclusion: Manipulation and counter-manipulation

Narrative

1. Narrative as a mode of communication

2. Referential properties

3. Textual properties

3.1 Narrative organization

3.2 Narrative evaluation

4. Contextual properties

Polyphony

1. Preliminaries

2. Polyphony in Bakhtin's work

3. Polyphony in Ducrot's work

4. The description of the polyphonic organization of discourse

5. The interrelations between polyphony and other dimensions of discourse structures

6. Conclusion

Pragmatic markers

1. The tradition and the present state of research on pragmatic markers

2. Defining the field.

3. The terminology: Pragmatic marker or discourse marker?

4. Classification

5. Pragmatic markers and multifunctionality

6. Theoretical approaches to the study of pragmatic markers

7. Methodology

8. Pragmatic markers in the languages of the world

9. The diachronic study of pragmatic markers

10. The contrastive study of pragmatic markers

11. Pragmatic markers in translation studies

12. Pragmatic markers in native versus non-native speaker communication

13. Pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic aspects

14. Pragmatic markers and the future

Public discourse

1.1 Multiple readings of 'publicness'

2. The situation-talk dialectic: 'public' as a feature of setting vs. 'public' as a feature of talk

2.1 Socio)linguistic markers of public discourse

2.2 Interaction-based approach

3. Goffman and the public order

4. Habermas and the public sphere

5. Transformation of the public sphere: Public discourse as mediated communication

5.1 The state's role in the conflation of public and private discourses in contemporary societies

5.2 Surveillance and control: Information exchange as a site of struggle

6. Pragmatic theories of information exchange and the public sphere: Towards a social pragmatics

Text and discourse linguistics

1. On terminology

2. Historical overview

3. Important fields of study

3.1 Information structure

3.2 Cohesion

3.3 Coherence

3.4 Grounding

3.5 Discourse types and genres

4. Other trends

5. Applications

5.1 Practical applications

5.2 Acquisitional and diachronic studies

6. Final remarks

Text linguistics

1. The rise of text linguistics

2. Some central issues

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613144126

9781283144124

1283144123

9789027289155

9027289158

OCLC:

731647054