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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958932103321

Titolo

Metapragmatics in use / / edited by Wolfram Bublitz, Axel Hubler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007

ISBN

9786612151927

9781282151925

1282151924

9789027291240

9027291241

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 301 p. : ill

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond new series, , 0922-842X ; ; v. 165

Classificazione

ER 990

Altri autori (Persone)

BublitzWolfram

HublerAxel

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Metalanguage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

"Don't blame me for criticizing you-- " / Krisadawan Hongladarom -- Facework and multiple selves in apologetic metapragmatic comments in Japanese / Barbara Pizziconi -- Metapragmatic function of quotative markers in Japanese / Satoko Suzuki -- Metapragmatic utterances in computer-mediated interaction / Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen -- On the metapragmatics of gestures / Axel Hubler -- Language shift in conversation as a metapragmatic comment / Hartmut Haberland -- Metapragmatic comments in institutional talk / Anna Ciliberti and Laurie Anderson -- Metapragmatic expressions in physics lectures / Sara W. Smith and Xiaoping Liang -- The acquisition of metapragmatic abilities in preschool children / Juliane Stude -- So your story now is that ... / Richard W. Janney -- A metapragmatic examination of therapist reformulations / Peter Muntigl -- Building common ground through metapragmatic comments in international project work / Hermine Penz.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways



in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as well as non-verbal) expressions which highlight (meta-)linguistic aspects of ongoing discourse and thus provoke a deviation from the latter's original direction and purpose. All case studies discuss ways and means which interactants employ to resolve diverging pragmatic expectations in communication. The papers analyze authentic examples from English and other languages (and cultures), including Thai, Chinese and Japanese, and center around three principal domains of communication: ordinary everyday interaction, interaction in educational contexts and in specialized discourse. The introductory chapter locates the various contributions within a systematically broader theoretical framework. The wide scope of the collection, its empirical orientation and the reader-friendly form of presentation should appeal to anyone interested in pragmatics, whether scholar or student.