Published by De Gruyter Mouton

Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]

Edited by: Wolfram Bublitz, Andreas H. Jucker and Klaus P. Schneider

Overview
Volumes

This new landmark series of thirteen self-contained handbooks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the entire field of pragmatics. It is based on a wide conception of pragmatics as the study of intentional human interaction in social and cultural contexts. The series reflects, appraises and structures a field that is exceptionally vast, unusually heterogeneous and still rapidly expanding. In-depth articles by leading experts from around the world discuss the foundations, major theories and most recent developments of pragmatics including philosophical, cognitive, sociocultural, contrastive and diachronic perspectives.

Author information

Wolfram Bublitz, University of Augsburg, Germany; Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Klaus P. Schneider, University of Bonn, Germany.

Topics

Book 2022

Pragmatics of Space

Andreas H. Jucker, Heiko Hausendorf

Volume 14 in this series

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of language use in space. It consists of four parts. The first part covers the various practices of describing space through language, including spatial references in spoken interaction or in written texts, the description of motion events as well as the creation of imaginative spaces in storytelling. The second part surveys aspects of the spatial organization of face-to-face communication including not only spatial arrangements of small groups in interaction but also the spatial dimension of sign language and gestures. The third part is devoted to the communicative resources of constructed spaces and the ways in which these facilitate and shape communication. Part four, finally, is devoted to pragmatics across space and cultures, i.e. the ways in which language use differs across language varieties, languages and cultures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693713
ISBN:: 9783110693713
ISBN:: 9783110693812
ISBN:: 9783110693553
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2020

Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics

Klaus P. Schneider, Elly Ifantidou

Volume 13 in this series

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This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431056
ISBN:: 9783110431056
ISBN:: 9783110431131
ISBN:: 9783110439717
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2017

Pragmatics of Fiction

Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker

Volume 12 in this series

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Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance, dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages, the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431094
ISBN:: 9783110431094
ISBN:: 9783110439700
ISBN:: 9783110431124
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2017

Pragmatics of Social Media

Christian R. Hoffmann, Wolfram Bublitz

Volume 11 in this series

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110431070
ISBN:: 9783110431070
ISBN:: 9783110439694
ISBN:: 9783110431117
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2018

Methods in Pragmatics

Andreas H. Jucker, Klaus P. Schneider, Wolfram Bublitz

Volume 10 in this series

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Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424928
ISBN:: 9783110424928
ISBN:: 9783110430660
ISBN:: 9783110427523
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2013

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

Susan Herring, Dieter Stein, Tuija Virtanen

Volume 9 in this series

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The present handbook provides an overview of the pragmatics of language and language use mediated by digital technologies. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined to include text-based interactive communication via the Internet, websites and other multimodal formats, and mobile communication. In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214468
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021445-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021446-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2010

Historical Pragmatics

Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen

Volume 8 in this series

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The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context. It covers all areas of historical pragmatics from grammaticalization theory to pragmatic entities, such as discourse markers, speech acts and politeness to individual discourse domains from scientific writing to literary discourse. Each contribution, written by a leading specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent developments in the field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214284
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021427-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021428-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2010

Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

Anna Trosborg

Volume 7 in this series

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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains four sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication, covering a wide range of topics, from speech acts and politeness issues to Lingua Franca and Corporate Crises Communication. The approach is theoretical, methodological as well as applied, with a focus on authentic, interactional data. All articles are written by renowned leading specialists, who provide in-depth, up-to-date overviews, and view new directions and visions for future research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214444
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021443-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021444-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2010

Interpersonal Pragmatics

Miriam A. Locher, Sage L. Graham

Volume 6 in this series

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This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics and communication studies and provides a multifaceted perspective on both theoretical and applied approaches to the role of language in relational work.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214338
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021432-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021433-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2011

Pragmatics of Society

Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer

Volume 5 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214420
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021441-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021442-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2012

Cognitive Pragmatics

Hans-Jörg Schmid

Volume 4 in this series

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Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the meanings of the words and the grammar they use. Instead speakers rely on hearers adding conceptual and emotive content while interpreting the contextually appropriate meanings and intentions behind utterances. This insight, which is of course particularly relevant in all kinds of indirect, figurative or humorous talk, lies at the heart of the linguistic discipline of pragmatics.

If pragmatics is the study of meaning-in-context, then cognitive pragmatics can be broadly defined as encompassing the study of the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meaning-in-context. While it would seem only natural that pragmatics as such should have addressed such cognitive issues anyway, it has mainly been due to the historical rooting of this discipline in the philosophy of language that psychological aspects have not been in the pragmatic limelight to date.

Being part of the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this volume is the first to systematically survey this terrain from a wide range of perspectives. It collects state-of-the-art contributions by leading experts from the fields of pragmatics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, clinical linguistics and historical linguistics. The volume is divided into four parts which tackle the following questions:

Part I: The cognitive principles of pragmatic competence

What are the general cognitive principles underlying pragmatic competence, i.e. the skill to arrive at context-dependent meanings of utterances? What are the cognitive underpinnings of language users' ability to compute or infer intended meanings in the role of hearers and to give hints as to how to decode intended meanings in the role of speakers?

Part II: The psychology of pragmatics

What are the actual cognitive processes taking place during online construal of meaning-in-context on the basis of encoded messages? How is pragmatic competence acquired in childhood? What are the types, sources and effects of pragmatic disorders, i.e. impairments of pragmatic competence?

Part III: The construal of non-explicit and non-literal meaning-in-context

What are the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meanings of non-explicit and indirect utterances? How do we process figurative meanings, humour and gestures?

Part IV: The emergence of linguistic structures from meaning-in-context

What are the repercussions of the (repeated) construal of context-dependent meanings on linguistic structures and the linguistic system? How does the system change under the influence of the construal of meanings in social situations?

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214215
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021420-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021421-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2014

Pragmatics of Discourse

Klaus P. Schneider, Anne Barron

Volume 3 in this series

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Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse.

Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214406
ISBN:: 9783110214390
ISBN:: 9783110214406
ISBN:: 9783110375022
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2013

Pragmatics of Speech Actions

Marina Sbisà, Ken Turner

Volume 2 in this series

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This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The first part of the volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena.

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214383
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021437-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021438-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 2011

Foundations of Pragmatics

Wolfram Bublitz, Neal R. Norrick

Volume 1 in this series

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Open publication

Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories and approaches as well as key concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the traditional and most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The in-depth articles provide reliable orientational overviews useful to researchers, students, and teachers. They are both state of the art reviews of their topics and critical evaluations in the light of subsequent developments. Topics are thus considered within their scholarly context and also critically evaluated from current perspectives. The five major sections of the handbook are dedicated to the Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations (with a historiographic overview of the establishment and subsequent development of pragmatics), Key Topics (investigating indexicality, reference and other concepts that were the first to make their way from grammar into pragmatics and mainstream notions like speech acts, types of inference), the Place of Pragmatics in the Description of Discourse (delimiting pragmatics from grammar, semantics, prosody, literary criticism), and Methods and Tools.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214260
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021425-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021426-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton