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Pragmatics of society /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andersen, Gisle, Aijmer, Karin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Colección:Handbook of pragmatics ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the handbook series; Introducing the pragmatics of society; I. Social, regional and situational factors; 1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction; 2. Gender identities and discourse; 3. Regional pragmatic variation; 4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations; II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features; 5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy; 6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction; 7. Prosody and pragmatic effects; III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude.
  • 8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective9. Interjections; 10. Vagueness and hedging; IV. Different interpretational levels
  • speech acts, politeness and beyond; 11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization; 12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments; 13. Politeness and impoliteness; 14. Honorifics and address terms; V. Sequential patterns and activities; 15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk; 16. Turn-taking in conversation.
  • 17. Pauses and hesitationsVI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture; 18. Cultural variation in language use; 19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare; VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context; 20. Global and intercultural communication; 21. Critical discourse analysis: overview, challenges, and perspectives; 22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history; About the authors; Author index; Subject index.