1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788549103321

Titolo

Ethnopragmatics [[electronic resource] ] : understanding discourse in cultural context / / edited by Cliff Goddard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

3-11-091111-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Applications of cognitive linguistics, , 1861-4078 ; ; 3

Classificazione

ES 135

Altri autori (Persone)

GoddardCliff

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Pragmatics - Social aspects

Language and culture

Semantics - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm / Goddard, Cliff -- 2. Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations / Wierzbicka, Anna -- 3. "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English / Goddard, Cliff -- 4. Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore / Wong, Jock Onn -- 5. Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese / Ye, Zhengdao -- 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world / Hasada, Rie -- 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish / Travis, Catherine E. -- 8. "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages / Ameka, Felix K. -- Author index -- General index

Sommario/riassunto

The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and



semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966422403321

Autore

King G. Heath

Titolo

Existence, thought, style : perspectives of a primary relation : portrayed through the work of Sren Kierkegaard / / G. Heath King ; edited by Timothy Kircher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Marquette, : Marquette University Press, c1996

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Marquette studies in philosophy ; ; no. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

KircherTimothy

Disciplina

198/.9

Soggetti

Style (Philosophy)

Individual differences

Thought and thinking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented in German as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitat Freiburg im Breisgau, 1984).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Editor's Introduction -- Chapter I -- Chapter II -- Chapter III -- Chapter IV -- Chapter V -- Chapter VI -- Chapter VII -- Bibliography of Cited Works -- Index of Names.



Sommario/riassunto

This work considers how relevant the mode of existence of a philosopher is to his philosophizing. On the basis of this insight, the work derives an understanding of style that has in view this very correspondence of thought and mode of existence.