Pragmatics of Society

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface to the handbook series
• Table of contents
• Introducing the pragmatics of society
• I. Social, regional and situational factors
  • 1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction
  • 2. Gender identities and discourse
  • 3. Regional pragmatic variation
  • 4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations
• II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features
  • 5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy
  • 6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction
  • 7. Prosody and pragmatic effects
• III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude
  • 8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective
  • 9. Interjections
  • 10. Vagueness and hedging
• IV. Different interpretational levels – speech acts, politeness and beyond
  • 11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization
  • 12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments
  • 13. Politeness and impoliteness
  • 14. Honorifics and address terms
• V. Sequential patterns and activities
  • 15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk
  • 16. Turn-taking in conversation
  • 17. Pauses and hesitations
• VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture
  • 18. Cultural variation in language use
  • 19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare
• VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context
  • 20. Global and intercultural communication
  • 21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives
  • 22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history
• About the authors
• Author index
• Subject index