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Metapragmatics in use /

This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as wel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bublitz, Wolfram, Hübler, Axel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 165.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as well as non-verbal) expressions which highlight (meta- )linguistic aspects of ongoing discourse and thus provoke a deviation from the latter's original direction and purpose. All case studies discuss ways and means which interactants employ to resolve diverging pragmatic expectations in communication. T.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 301 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027291240
9027291241
1282151924
9781282151925
9786612151927
6612151927
ISSN:0922-842X ;