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The Pragmatics of Catalan.

This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan language. The volume constitutes a significant contribution to the field of intercultural pragmatics and also to a broad range of grammatical and cognit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Payrató, Lluís
Other Authors: Cots, Josep Maria
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Series:Mouton series in pragmatics ; 10.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Catalan pragmatics and the pragmatics of Catalan; Part I. Pragmatics, grammar, and semantics; Prosody and pragmatics; Pragmatic particles at the syntax-cognition interface; Modal particles in Catalan; Person deixis in Catalan; Indirect evidence in Catalan: A case study; Catalan interjections; Part II. Pragmatics, discourse, sociocultural aspects, and language contact; Pragmatic coherence as a multimodal feature: Illustrative cospeech gestures, events, and states; "Here, many stories begin on a paper napkin". Argumentation in Catalan discourse.
  • Politeness and cultural styles of speaking in CatalanMetaphor and style in Catalan; Doing learning languages in a multilingual context: Pragmatic aspects of classroom discourse in Catalonia; Catalan-Spanish language contact in social interaction; Index.