Pragmatics of society / edited by Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andersen, Gisle.

Aijmer, Karin.

Series:

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

Handbook of pragmatics ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (720 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 identiti

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the handbook series / Bublitz, Wolfram / Jucker, Andreas H. / Schneider, Klaus P.

Table of contents

Introducing the pragmatics of society / Aijmer, Karin / Andersen, Gisle

I. Social, regional and situational factors

1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction / Georgakopoulou, Alexandra / Charalambidou, Anna

2. Gender identities and discourse / Murphy, Bróna

3. Regional pragmatic variation / Placencia, María Elena

4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations / Mühleisen, Susanne

II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features

5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy / Biber, Douglas

6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction / Walker, Gareth

7. Prosody and pragmatic effects / Wichmann, Anne

III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude

8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective / Foolen, Ad

9. Interjections / Norrick, Neal R.

10. Vagueness and hedging / Overstreet, Maryann

IV. Different interpretational levels - speech acts, politeness and beyond

11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization / Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen

12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments / Golato, Andrea

13. Politeness and impoliteness / Culpeper, Jonathan

14. Honorifics and address terms / Ide, Sachiko / Ueno, Kishiko

V. Sequential patterns and activities

15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk / Svennevig, Jan / Johansen, Ronny

16. Turn-taking in conversation / Steensig, Jakob

17. Pauses and hesitations / Stenström, Anna-Brita

VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture

18. Cultural variation in language use / Gladkova, Anna

19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare / Connor, Ulla

VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context

20. Global and intercultural communication / House, Juliane

21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives / Wodak, Ruth

22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history / Monaghan, Leila

About the authors

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110214420

3110214423

OCLC:

772845124