Pragmatics of Society

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Pragmatics of Society

Edited by: Gisle Andersen and Karin Aijmer

Volume 5 in the series Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214420

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Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.

The handbook gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use
the volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics
includes a helpful name and subject index

Author information

Gisle Andersen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NNH), Norway; Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenborg, Sweden.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	i
Preface to the handbook series Wolfram Bublitz, Andreas H. Jucker and Klaus P. Schneider Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	v
Table of contents Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	ix
Introducing the pragmatics of society Karin Aijmer and Gisle Andersen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
I. Social, regional and situational factors
1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Anna Charalambidou Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	31
2. Gender identities and discourse Bróna Murphy Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	53
3. Regional pragmatic variation María Elena Placencia Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	79
4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations Susanne Mühleisen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	115
II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features
5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy Douglas Biber Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	137
6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction Gareth Walker Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
7. Prosody and pragmatic effects Anne Wichmann Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	181
III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude
8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective Ad Foolen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	217
9. Interjections Neal R. Norrick Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	243
10. Vagueness and hedging Maryann Overstreet Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	293
IV. Different interpretational levels – speech acts, politeness and beyond
11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	321
12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments Andrea Golato Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	361
13. Politeness and impoliteness Jonathan Culpeper Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	393
14. Honorifics and address terms Sachiko Ide and Kishiko Ueno Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	439
V. Sequential patterns and activities
15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk Jan Svennevig and Ronny Johansen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	473
16. Turn-taking in conversation Jakob Steensig Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	501
17. Pauses and hesitations Anna-Brita Stenström Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	537
VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture
18. Cultural variation in language use Anna Gladkova Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	571
19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare Ulla Connor Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	593
VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context
20. Global and intercultural communication Juliane House Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	607
21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives Ruth Wodak Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	627
22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history Leila Monaghan Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	651
About the authors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	689
Author index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	695
Subject index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	701

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Libraries, Academic Institutes, scholars interested in Intercultural Communication, Politeness, Critical Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Anthropology
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 707
Keywords: Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

eBook

Published: December 23, 2011
ISBN: 9783110214420

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2011
ISBN: 9783110214413