The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger Cross-linguistic perspectives Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levisen, Carsten, editor.

Ye, Zhengdao, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 346

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication Studies.

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Local Subjects:

Communication Studies.

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 251 pages )

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish. Focusing on global and local contexts surrounding "living in dangerous times", this book showcases how the new model of cultural pragmatics can be used to illuminate cultural meanings in discourse. Unlike the universalist approaches to pragmatics, cultural pragmatics focuses on understanding the linguacultural logics of discourse, and in the case of "danger", the multiple cultural logics around which the themes and domains of "danger" revolve. The approach makes use of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) as its principal analytical tool, and concepts such as "cultural keywords" and "cultural scripts" figure prominently as bearers of culture-specific meanings. The book will be of interest to students of pragmatics and discourse studies, researchers in cultural and cognitive semantics, anthropological linguistics, global humanities, political rhetoric and environmental studies, as well as linguists working in applied areas, such as risk and disaster studies, crisis and emergency communication. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. "When bad things happen to people" / Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

Chapter 2. Society in danger / Carsten Levisen

Chapter 3. A Japanese pragmatics of danger / Yuko Asano-Cavanagh and Robert F. Cavanagh

Chapter 4. New social categories in dangerous times / Mónica Aznárez Mauleón

Chapter 5. Superheroes, war heroes, health care heroes / Lauren Sadow and Katie Cox

Chapter 6. Emergency messaging and dangerous translations / Ida Stevia Diget

Chapter 7. Language learning in times of danger / Susana S. Fernández and Christine Appel

Chapter 8. Planet in danger! Climate emotions in English / Helen Bromhead

Chapter 9. Alla yustur / Sandy Habib

Chapter 10. The cultural pragmatics of "danger" in Chinese political discourse / Zhengdao Ye

Chapter 11. Security , Sicherheit , ānquán / Cliff Goddard, Tine-Marie Junker and Zhengdao Ye

Epilogue: Beyond dangers and disasters / Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027246783

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.