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Pragmatic Inference
Misunderstandings, Accountability, Deniability
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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The concept of inference is foundational to the study of pragmatics; however, the way it is theoretically conceptualised and methodologically operationalised is far from uniform. This Element investigates the role that inference plays in pragmatic models of communication, bringing together a range …
Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture
Av Jack Wilson
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has been the focus of investigation. If we are to …
Advice in Conversation
Corpus Pragmatics Meets Mixed Methods
Av Nele Põldvere, Rachele De Felice m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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This Element is a contribution to a new generation of corpus pragmatics research by taking as its starting point the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation, and by adopting a mixed-methods approach. Through a unique combination of theoretical, qualitative, quantitative, and statistical …
Corpus Pragmatics
Av Daniela Landert, Daria Dayter m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. In addition, the Element identifies areas in which …
Fiction and Pragmatics
Av Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
291 kr
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This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as …
Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication
A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture (CC). CC is a form of ostracism involving the collective withdrawal of …
Positive Social Acts
A Metapragmatic Exploration of the Brighter and Darker Sides of Sociability
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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Sociability is friendly behavior that is performed by a variety of positive social acts that are aimed to establish, promote, or restore relationships. However, attempts to achieve these interactional goals can fail or backfire; moreover, interactants may abuse these strategies. A pragmatic focus …
Leveraging Relations in Diaspora
Occupational Recommendations among Latin Americans in London
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research by offering a first inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. Based on accounts of the practices that Spanish-speaking Latin Americans engage in …
Pragmatics in Translation
Mediality, Participation and Relational Work
Av Daria Dayter, Miriam A. Locher m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically innovative avenues of research in the field. We …
Speech Act Theory
Between Narrow and Broad Pragmatics
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of …
Speech Acts
Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and …
Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture
Av Jack Wilson
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has been the focus of investigation. If we are to …
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
Known Unknowns
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. We can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between slow speech encoding and fast …
The Dark Matter of Pragmatics
Known Unknowns
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. We can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer limitation on the speed of speech encoding: pragmatics occupies the niche nestled between slow speech encoding and fast …
Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication
A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element shows the basis for pragmatics/(im)politeness to become intergroup-oriented to be able to consider interactions in which social identities are salient or are essentially collective in nature, such as Cancel Culture (CC). CC is a form of ostracism involving the collective withdrawal of …
Pragmatics in the Health Sciences
Av Maria Garraffa, Greta Mazzaggio
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element aims to address a gap in the literature at the intersection of linguistics, particularly pragmatics, and health sciences, such as speech and language pathology. The first section introduces the application of pragmatics concepts in healthcare and neuroscience. Section 2 discusses the …
Pragmatics in the Health Sciences
Av Maria Garraffa, Greta Mazzaggio
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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This Element aims to address a gap in the literature at the intersection of linguistics, particularly pragmatics, and health sciences, such as speech and language pathology. The first section introduces the application of pragmatics concepts in healthcare and neuroscience. Section 2 discusses the …
Pragmatic Inference
Misunderstandings, Accountability, Deniability
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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The concept of inference is foundational to the study of pragmatics; however, the way it is theoretically conceptualised and methodologically operationalised is far from uniform. This Element investigates the role that inference plays in pragmatic models of communication, bringing together a range …
Leveraging Relations in Diaspora
Occupational Recommendations among Latin Americans in London
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research by offering a first inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. Based on accounts of the practices that Spanish-speaking Latin Americans engage in …
Speech Acts
Discursive, Multimodal, Diachronic
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and …
Speech Act Theory
Between Narrow and Broad Pragmatics
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Speech act theory has been foundational in establishing pragmatics as an independent field of inquiry; yet, recent pragmatic research appears to have drifted away from the theoretical investigation of speech acts. This Element explores the reasons why this is so, focusing on the difference of …
