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Meaning, Context and Methodology
Av Sarah-Jane Conrad, Klaus Petrus
Inbunden, 2017
2125 kr
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What methodological impact does Contextualism have on the philosophy of language? This collection sets out to provide some answers. The authors in this volume question three ultimately connected assumptions of the philosophy of language. The first assumption relates to the predominant status of …
Pragmatic Turn in Law
Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse
Av Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein
Inbunden, 2017
2125 kr
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Pragmatics at its Interfaces
Inbunden, 2017
2125 kr
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All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting original ways in which research in the particular areas they adhere to could advance. Apart from the obvious aim of motivating further discussion on the …
Cognitive Pragmatics
Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness
Inbunden, 2018
2125 kr
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Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevance Theory has provided a rich framework for research in the field. However, this theory makes a number of assumptions that are rooted in a modular …
Irony, Deception and Humour
Seeking the Truth about Overt and Covert Untruthfulness
Av Marta Dynel
Inbunden, 2018
2497 kr
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This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a …
Gestures We Live By
The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures
Av Lluís Payrató, Ignasi Clemente
Inbunden, 2019
2125 kr
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This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal …
Pragmatic Turn in Law
Inference and Interpretation in Legal Discourse
Av Janet Giltrow, Dieter Stein
Häftad, 2019
432 kr
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In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference and the construction of meaning. This book investigates to what extent a pragmatically based view …
Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature
A Study Across Three Texas Ethnolects
Inbunden, 2020
1794 kr
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Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed through the lenses of Gricean pragmatics and Labovian sociolinguistics. Focusing on sentences such as "Can't nobody lift that rock" in African American, …
Cognitive Pragmatics
Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevance Theory has provided a rich framework for research in the field. However, this theory makes a number of assumptions that are rooted in a modular …
Gestures We Live By
The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures
Av Lluís Payrató, Ignasi Clemente
Häftad, 2022
324 kr
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This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal …
Direct Belief
An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief
Inbunden, 2012
1791 kr
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Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to …
Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book takes a contextualist stand by arguing that untruthful implicatures and presuppositions are part of the total …
Beyond Words
Content, Context, and Inference
Av Frank Liedtke, Cornelia Schulze
Inbunden, 2013
1844 kr
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In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined by the meaning of the sentence uttered. What counts as having been said for most contemporary authors goes far beyond sentence meaning. Rather, it has …
Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics
Av Istvan Kecskes, Jesús Romero-Trillo
Inbunden, 2013
2750 kr
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This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encompass the primary applications of intercultural exchanges: the linguistic and cognitive domain, the social and cultural domain, and the discourse and …
Explorations in Pragmatics
Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultural Aspects
Av Istvan Kecskes, Laurence R. Horn
Inbunden, 2007
2338 kr
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The papers in this volume reflect current trends in international research in pragmatics over recent years. The unique feature of the book is that the authors coming from ten different countries represent all aspects of pragmatics and address issues that have emerged as the result of recent …
Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics
A Mutualistic Entente
Inbunden, 2008
2864 kr
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The recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival …
Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer
Inbunden, 2008
2842 kr
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This book presents current research that discusses some of the major issues in pragmatics from new perspectives, and directs attention to aspects of fundamental tenets that have been investigated only to a limited extent.Current pragmatic theories emphasize the importance of intention, cooperation, …
Culture, Society, and Cognition
Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge
Inbunden, 2008
2271 kr
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This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understanding what words mean in use requires an open-ended recourse to pragmatic cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge makes up a productive conceptual …
Non-Lexical Pragmatics
Time, Causality and Logical Words
Inbunden, 2019
2125 kr
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This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pragmatics is generally approached from the neo- and post-Gricean perspectives. These perspectives, which stem from philosophical theories of meaning, …
Pragmatic Competence
Inbunden, 2009
2390 kr
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In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make …
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
Av Francois Recanati, Isidora Stojanovic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2390 kr
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This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial …
Discursive Approaches to Politeness
Av Linguistic Politeness Research Group
Inbunden, 2011
2566 kr
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This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness. The volume brings together cutting edge essays reflecting the range of discursive …
Pragmatics of Catalan
Av Lluís Payrató, Josep Maria Cots
Inbunden, 2011
2390 kr
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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 …
Understanding Quotation
Av Elke Brendel, Jörg Meibauer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2338 kr
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Studies on the nature of quotation have become a topic of growing interest among linguists and philosophers of language. What is the function and logical status of quotations? How can an analysis of quotation help to develop a general theory of the semantics-pragmatics interface? This volume is a …
Im/Politeness Implicatures
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes …
Role of Data at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
Av Eniko Németh T., Karoly Bibok
Inbunden, 2010
2390 kr
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To join the recent debate on data problem in linguistics, this collection of papers provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (including historical, lexical, formal and experimental pragmatics). Based on several current theories and various types of data …
Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing
Av Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Keith Allan
Inbunden, 2011
2390 kr
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The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious …
Im/Politeness Implicatures
Häftad, 2016
280 kr
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This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes …
Why Language?
What Pragmatics Tells Us About Language And Communication
Inbunden, 2021
1752 kr
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There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and pragmatics, Why …
Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction
Inbunden, 2023
1752 kr
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In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. Taking into account not only L1 but also intercultural interactions and attempting to bring together the traditional view with the …
