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Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society

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Editors:
  1. Alessandro Capone

    1. University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  2. Jacob L. Mey

    1. Dept. of Lang & Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

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  • Presents a collection of papers at the intersection of pragmatics, philosophy and social theory
  • Contains works contributed by some of the most prominent authors in the field
  • Offers a more complete and unique overview of the area than comparable works, which often take the perspective of politeness and linguistic variation?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Sociocultural Diversity

    • Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey
    Pages 1-11

  3. Theoretical Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Pragmatics Seen Through the Prism of Society

      • Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 15-41

    3. Can Intercultural Pragmatics Bring Some New Insight into Pragmatic Theories?

      • Istvan Kecskes
      Pages 43-69

    4. Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to Pragmatics, Critique, and Trends

      • Linda R. Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Khaled Al Masaeed, Tom Hong Do, Paul G. Renigar
      Pages 71-135

    5. Pronouns and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics

      • Wayne A. Davis
      Pages 137-178

    6. Pragmatic Disorders and Social Functioning: A Lifespan Perspective

      • Louise Cummings
      Pages 179-208

    7. The Dialogic Principle Revisited: Speech Acts and Mental States

      • Edda Weigand
      Pages 209-232

    8. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Wittgenstein, on “Language-Games” and Ethics

      • Felice Cimatti
      Pages 233-250

    9. The Individual and the Social Path of Interpretation: The Case of Incomplete Disjunctive Questions

      • Kasia M. Jaszczolt, Eleni Savva, Michael Haugh
      Pages 251-283

    10. Discourse and Racism: Some Conclusions of 30 Years of Research

      • Teun A. van Dijk
      Pages 285-295

    11. Discourse Markers in Oral Narrative

      • Neal R. Norrick
      Pages 297-327

    12. Propositional Attitudes and Cultural Scripts

      • Anna Gladkova
      Pages 329-352

    13. Modular, Cellular, Integral: A Pragmatic Elephant?

      • Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 353-369

    14. What Can Pragmatics Learn from the Law? (On Recanati’s Cases of Modulation, Indirect Reporting, and Cancellability of Explicatures)

      • Alessandro Capone
      Pages 371-394

  4. Linguistics and Pragmatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 395-395
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    2. A Benchmark for Politeness

      • Keith Allan
      Pages 397-420

    3. Impoliteness Strategies

      • Jonathan Culpeper
      Pages 421-445

    4. Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse with the Help of Speech Act Conditions

      • Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen
      Pages 447-463
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About this book

This volume is part of the series ‘Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology’, edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers. This volume focuses on societal pragmatics.


One of the main concerns of societal pragmatics is the world of language users. We are interested in the investigation of  linguistic practices in the context of societal practices (‘praxis’, to use a term used in the Wittgensteinian and other traditions).


It is clear that the world of users, including their practices, their culture, and their social aims has to be taken into account and seriously investigated when we deal with the pragmatics of language. It is not enough to discuss principles of language use solely in the guise of abstract theoretical tools. Consequently, the present volume focuses explicitly on the interplay of abstract, theoretical principles and the necessities imposed by societal contexts often requiring a more flexible use of such theoretical tools.

The volume includes articles on pragmemes, politeness and anti-politeness,  dialogue, joint utterances, discourse markers, pragmatics and the law, institutional discourse, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and culture, cultural scripts, argumentation theory, connectives  and argumentation, language games and psychotherapy, slurs,  the analysis of funerary rites, as well as an authoritative chapter by Jacob L. Mey on societal pragmatics.

Reviews

“It successfully showcases interdisciplinary or even transdisciplinary explorations of how pragmatics can provide new and renewed insights on linguistics knowledge, interpersonal interaction, cultural understanding and interpretation, and social progress. … The editors must be credited for putting together such high-quality volume on pragmatics, characterized by thought-provoking theoretical underpinnings and sound empirical evidence. This book would be of great value for academics and graduate students looking for new trends and advances in pragmatic research.” (Chaoqun Xie, Pragmatics and Society, Vol. 8 (4), 2017)



“Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society is a precious resource for anybody who studies language and society. As the authors note at the beginning of the book, societal pragmatics is only a drop in the ocean of language related studies. … book shows that there are many aspects of pragmatic studies that are societally relevant. The volume makes a successful attempt in persuading the reader that societal pragmatics deserves to be admitted as a member of the linguistic club.” (Valentina Cardella, Intercultural Pragmatics, Vol. 13 (4), November, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

  • Dept. of Lang & Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

    Jacob L. Mey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society

  • Editors: Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12616-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12615-9Published: 12 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37183-2Published: 22 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12616-6Published: 31 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 990

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Philosophy of Language, Social Sciences, general

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