Context and contexts : parts meet whole? / / edited by Anita Fetzer, Etsuko Oishi

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 238 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Context (Linguistics); Discourse analysis; Social interaction
• Altri autori: FetzerAnita <1958-> OishiEtsuko
• Note generali: Based on papers from the IPrA Conference, which was held in Melbourne in 2009.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Context and Contexts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Pragmatics and context -- 2. Context and contexts -- 3. The contributions -- References -- Situated meaning in context -- Why a mother's rule is not a law: The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Law, speech acts, context and genre -- 3.1 Law -- 3.2 Speech acts -- 3.3 Context -- 3.4 Genre -- 4. Tense, aspect, modality and conditionals in Greek -- 4.1 Tense -- 4.2 Aspect -- 4.3 Modality -- 4.4 Conditionals in Greek -- 5. Modality, aspect and tense in Greek laws -- 5.1 Modality -- 5.2 Aspect -- 5.3 Tense -- 5.4 Statistical data -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Fighting words: Hybrid discourse and discourse processes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multilayered model of context -- 3. Contextualization and entextualization -- 4. Analyses -- 4.1 Choice analysis: Structure of the media interview -- 4.2 Chain analysis: Increasing the rhetoric against Colombia -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Context and talk in confrontational discourses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Perspectives on context -- 3. The media interview -- 4. Overview and data -- 5. Interactional behaviour of the participants -- 6. Socially significant relationships in the interviews -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Deixis in context -- This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two and three term systems of demonstrative pronouns -- 2.1 Two term systems: Polish -- 2.2 Three term systems: Spanish -- 2.3 How to express spaces at a middle distance in Polish? -- 3. Constructing spatial context in the conversational dyad -- 3.1 Face-to-face conversations -- 3.2 Face-to-back: Constructing the hearer-side space. ; 3.3 Side-by-side: Near and distant spaces -- 4. Constructing context to coordinate manual activities -- 4.1 The construction of unshared spaces in face-to-back situation -- 4.2 The construction of shared spaces in a face-to-face situation -- 4.3 Explicit and implicit: Use in different languages -- 5. Context and contexts -- 5.1 From space to time: The activity of recontextualizing -- 5.2 The dynamics of contextualization: From shared to unshared spaces -- 6. Parts meet whole: State of the art and outlook -- References -- Strategic context importation in political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context and context importation -- 2.1 Social and sociocultural context -- 2.2 Linguistic context -- 2.3 Cognitive context -- 2.4 Context invocation and context importation -- 3. Political discourse in context -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Genre-specific analysis -- 4. Place deixis: Here and there -- 4.1 Here in context -- 4.2 There in context -- 4.3 Here and there in political discourse -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. Methodology and research questions -- 4. Contrast and the contrastive adverbial connective (tam) tersine -- 4.1 Horn's Q-based and R-based implicature and negation -- 4.2 Descriptive vs. metalinguistic negation -- 5. The adverbial (tam) tersine in discourse context -- 6. The effect of the tripartite discourse structure on cognitive context -- 7. The motivation for refutation-rectification pairs: The use of the adverb in the argument mode -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Communicative action in context -- Speech acts in context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. The force of words -- 4. Situations and speech acts -- 5. On 'seeing' a situation -- 6. Politics, diplomacy and conversation -- 7. Speech acts and (con)text -- 8. Conclusion. ; References -- How are speech acts situated in context? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is it to perform an illocutionary act? -- 2.1 A model of illocutionary acts -- 2.2 How can performing an illocutionary act be successful? -- 3. How are illocutionary acts evaluated? -- 3.1 Conventionality of illocutionary acts and instances of performing illocutionary acts -- 3.2 Strength of illocutionary acts -- 4. The issues of speech acts -- 4.1 The meaning-force distinction -- 4.2 Conventionality of illocutionary acts -- 5. How are illocutionary acts situated? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Context: An adaptive perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context from an adaptive perspective -- 2.1 From external environment to external context -- 2.2 The external context as context of reference -- 2.3 From context of reference to learning context -- 2.4 The role of internal values in context construction: A summary -- 2.5 Acquired skills and action selection -- 2.6 From external to internalized context -- 2.7 Recapitulation -- 2.8 Some implications -- 3. Context and linguistic action -- 3.1 Action selection: What a higher level of complexity entails -- 3.2 Processes involved in context construction: A higher level of complexity -- 3.3 Context construction and the comprehension skills issue -- 3.3 Closing remark -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.
• Sommario/riassunto: From an adaptive perspective, context construction is construable as a way of handling variation in the external environment. As such, it is as part of the action selection process, which is governed by adaptive values. This contribution examines in what way context results from the intervention of such values. By contrast with more mainstream approaches, which tend to favour a personal level of analysis, this project views context in terms of perceptual and conceptual categorization, attention selection and decision making. The underlying assumptions are drawn mainly from Damasio's model of decision making (Damasio 1994) and Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (Edelman 1989, 1992), both of which are concerned with how the brain - as a selective system - handles contextual change.
• Titolo autorizzato: Context and contexts
• ISBN: 1-283-12823-3; 9786613128232; 90-272-8663-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806147503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser., v. 209.