Pragmatics of society / / edited by Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (720 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics
• Soggetto non controllato: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics
• Altri autori: AndersenGisle AijmerKarin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface to the handbook series / Bublitz, Wolfram / Jucker, Andreas H. / Schneider, Klaus P. -- Table of contents -- Introducing the pragmatics of society / Aijmer, Karin / Andersen, Gisle -- I. Social, regional and situational factors -- 1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction / Georgakopoulou, Alexandra / Charalambidou, Anna -- 2. Gender identities and discourse / Murphy, Bróna -- 3. Regional pragmatic variation / Placencia, María Elena -- 4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations / Mühleisen, Susanne -- II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features -- 5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy / Biber, Douglas -- 6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction / Walker, Gareth -- 7. Prosody and pragmatic effects / Wichmann, Anne -- III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude -- 8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective / Foolen, Ad -- 9. Interjections / Norrick, Neal R. -- 10. Vagueness and hedging / Overstreet, Maryann -- IV. Different interpretational levels - speech acts, politeness and beyond -- 11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization / Taleghani-Nikazm, Carmen -- 12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments / Golato, Andrea -- 13. Politeness and impoliteness / Culpeper, Jonathan -- 14. Honorifics and address terms / Ide, Sachiko / Ueno, Kishiko -- V. Sequential patterns and activities -- 15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk / Svennevig, Jan / Johansen, Ronny -- 16. Turn-taking in conversation / Steensig, Jakob -- 17. Pauses and hesitations / Stenström, Anna-Brita -- VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture -- 18. Cultural variation in language use / Gladkova, Anna -- 19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare / Connor, Ulla -- VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context -- 20. Global and intercultural communication / House, Juliane -- 21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives / Wodak, Ruth -- 22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history / Monaghan, Leila -- About the authors -- Author index -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 identiti
• Titolo autorizzato: Pragmatics of society
• ISBN: 3-11-021442-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828884203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]