The pragmatics of adaptability / edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silva, Daniel N.

Mey, Jacob.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 319.

Pragmatics and beyond ; new, v. 319

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Social aspects.

Pragmatics.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and principled human adaptability in interaction, form, and meaning. Working on different strands of such a socially oriented pragmatics, the authors gathered in this volume study the adaptability of language as shaped by the conditions of society, culture, and cognition. Grouped in four sections, the book's chapters explore the embedding of adaptability in language ideology, text, communicative practice, and learning. Adopting these various perspectives, the authors gauge how language users navigate the different layers of societal, cognitive, and communicative constraints, while adapting their communicative practices, language ideologies, and technologies of interaction to their everyday living conditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Section I. Adapting truth, speech acts, and ideologies

Chapter 1. Adaptability and truth

Chapter 2. How do we adapt ourselves in performing an illocutionary act?

Chapter 3. Adapting to changing concepts of time

Chapter 4. The reality of technological worldviews

Section II. Adapting text and textuality

Chapter 5. Ad-appting children’s stories

Chapter 6. Self-containment and contamination

Chapter 7. Quotation, meta-data and transparency of sources in mediated political discourse

Chapter 8. The adaptability of becoming

Section III. Adaptive communities of practice

Chapter 9. Face, conflict, and adaptability in mediated intercultural invitations

Chapter 10. Discussing breast cancer in cyber spaces

Chapter 11. Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line

Chapter 12. How LINE users struggle to come to terms with the adaptability-adaptivity dilemma

Section IV. Adapting learning and teaching

Chapter 13. Apprenticeship in microbiology

Chapter 14. Technological context

Chapter 15. Language policy and language teaching

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1226073411