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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811695703321

Titolo

The discourse of indirectness : cues, voices and functions / / edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar, Galia Hirsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Indirect discourse

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part 1. Cues for indirectness: The inferential view -- Part 2. Voices in the text: The dialogic-intertextual view -- Part 3. (In)directness as an effective choice: The functional view.

Sommario/riassunto

"Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from textual, contextual and intertextual meaning units. Emphasis is placed on the way in which indirectness serves the representation of diverse voices in the text, and this is examined through three main prisms: (1) the inferential view focuses on textual and contextual cues from which pragmatic indirect meanings might be inferred; (2) the dialogic-intertextual view focuses on dialogic and intertextual cues according to which different voices (social, ideological, literary etc.) are identified in the text; and (3) the functional view focuses on the pragmatic-rhetorical functions fulfilled by indirectness of both kinds"--