Studies in Pragmatics – serie
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Pragmatic Markers in Contrast
Av Karin Aijmer, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Inbunden, 2006
1185 kr
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Building on the first volume in the Studies in Pragmatics series which clearly set out the differences and similarities in approaches to discourse markers, Pragmatic Markers in Contrast continues the debate through offering a unique and thorough examination of the methods and theories for studying …
Approaches to Discourse Particles
Inbunden, 2006
1374 kr
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Discourse particles fulfil many different functions; they contribute to text structuring, dialogue management, turn-taking, and politeness. This reference presents a spectrum of approaches to discourse particles/markers in their richness and variability, whilst ensuring that the differences and …
New Approaches to Hedging
Av Gunther Kaltenböck, Wiltrud Mihatsch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2459 kr
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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied …
Subjectivity in Language and Discourse
Av Nicole Baumgarten, Inke Du Bois m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2948 kr
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Subjectivity in Language and in Discourse deals with the linguistic encoding and discursive construction of subjectivity across languages and registers. The aim of this book is to complement the highly specialized, parallel and often separate research strands on the phenomenon of subjectivity with …
Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues
Av Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2257 kr
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The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish). They are set against the …
Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift
Av Ken Turner
Inbunden, 2009
3371 kr
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This is a collection of invited papers that honours Professor Jacob Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Professor Mey is, and has for a long time been, at once one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, now, avuncular members of the numerous linguistics …
Where Prosody Meets Pragmatics
Av Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Nicole Dehé m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2606 kr
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This volume demonstrates the synergies that can result from interdisciplinary collaboration. Responding to the growing interest in the interface between prosody and pragmatics, it presents a collection of papers which use different approaches and data to explore a wide range of interrelated issues …
Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
Av Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Jacqueline Visconti
Inbunden, 2009
3037 kr
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The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. The analyses include data from …
Nonveridicality and Evaluation
Theoretical, Computational and Corpus Approaches
Av Maite Taboada, Rada Trnavac
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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Nonveridicality and evaluation interact in obvious ways in conveying opinion and subjectivity in language. In Nonveridicality and Evaluation Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac bring together a diverse group of researchers with interests in evaluation, Appraisal, nonveridicality and coherence …
Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters
Av María de la O Hernández-López, Lucía Fernández Amaya
Inbunden, 2015
2472 kr
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In A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters, María de la O Hernández-López and Lucía Fernández-Amaya have joined marketing researchers and linguists to provide the tools to understand consumers’ communication in different professional settings. Service encounters have been widely studied …
Context Construction as Mediated by Discourse Markers
An Adaptive Approach
Av Thanh Nyan
Inbunden, 2016
2042 kr
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From a Darwinian perspective, language is rooted in our neurobiology, and the process whereby interpretation is reached – in the case of argumentative sequences – is not dissimilar to that underlying action selection in response to environmental change: indeed, it arguably involves the same type of …
Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery
Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change
Av Kate Beeching, Ulrich Detges
Inbunden, 2014
2745 kr
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A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, …
Appropriating Live Televised Football through Talk
Inbunden, 2014
2774 kr
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Video-recordings of families and groups of friends watching the FIFA men’s football World Cup in their homes allow access to the empirical rather than the imagined or inscribed audiences of a major television event. Qualitative analyses reveal how natural audiences behave in the reception situation …
Presented Discourse in Popular Science
Professional Voices in Books for Lay Audiences
Inbunden, 2018
1683 kr
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In Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering presentation of discourse outside of literary fiction: popular science uses presented …
Storytelling as Narrative Practice
Ethnographic Approaches to the Tales We Tell
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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Telling stories is one of the fundamental things we do as humans. Yet in scholarship, stories considered to be “traditional”, such as myths, folk tales, and epics, have often been analyzed separately from the narratives of personal experience that we all tell on a daily basis. In Storytelling as …
Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers
New Issues in the Study of Language Change
Inbunden, 2018
2642 kr
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Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even …
Discourse Markers in Sicily
A Synchronic, Diachronic, and Sociolinguistic Analysis
Inbunden, 2022
2314 kr
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When I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: «Arà, che si dice?» (‘Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in – arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me …
Approaches to Multimodality
Rhetoric and Stylistics in Public Discourse
Inbunden, 2024
1815 kr
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This volume transcends boundaries, captivating multimodality scholars worldwide while offering invaluable non-"Anglo" perspectives through its main focus on Lithuanian public discourse. Discover the interaction between multimodal communication and (sub)cultural influences in political, advertising, …
Online Apologies in Japanese
Inbunden, 2025
1959 kr
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Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic (gomen, su(m)imasen and mōshiwake arimasen) work in a data …
Explorations in Internet Pragmatics
Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction
Inbunden, 2024
1922 kr
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This volume takes the reader on an exploration in the dynamics underlying digital interaction. The chapters investigate the ways in which individuals shape and interpret intentions, construct identities, and engage in interpersonal exchanges. Online platforms from forums and Wikipedia to Periscope, …
FACE: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept
Inbunden, 2024
2228 kr
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Face has become a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics. By virtue of its metaphorical force, it enables researchers to explain universal processes of human communication mostly reflected in language use. Yet being an English construct, in intercultural comparison, face provokes critical debates …
(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt
Norms, Wit, and Rudeness in Texts from Pharaonic Times through Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2025
2254 kr
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(Im)politeness in Ancient Egypt is the first book-length study of (im)politeness in ancient Egyptian texts. Leading experts in their respective corpora examine a range of textual sources spanning approximately 2,000 years, using the latest frameworks for analyzing language in usage. This edited …
Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Inbunden, 2025
2416 kr
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The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean offers a new perspective on the evolution of pragmatic markers in language contact and grammaticalization, drawing on data-driven and diachronic studies of Chinese compounds. All the contributors to this …
New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis
Inbunden, 2026
1841 kr
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Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) developed as a refocusing of Harvey Sacks’ original analyses of categories, devices, and sequence in talk-in-interaction. In building empirically an understanding of membership categorisation practices as ‘culture-in-action’, MCA, and this collection, opens …
