Overview
- Provides an analysis of the event of death seen from an interactional perspective
- Includes contributions from authors with a diverse language/cultural background
- Contains contributions not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 13)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Death and Society
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Death Across Languages and Cultures
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About this book
This volume brings together a wide array of papers which explore, among other things, to what extent languages and cultures are variable with respect to the interactions around the event of death. Motivated by J. L. Mey’s idea of the pragmeme, a situated speech act, the volume has both theoretical and practical implications for scholars working in different fields of enquiry. As the papers in this volume reveal, despite the terminological differences between various disciplines, the interactions around the event of death serve to provide solace, not only to the dying, but also to the family and friends of the deceased, thus helping them to “accommodate” to the new state of affairs.
Reviews
“The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death edited by Parvaresh and Capone is a very signficant contribution to societal pragmatics studies. Since this approach emphasizes the role of particular situation types (pragmemes) in modeling linguistic interpretation, what is of utmost importance for the field is creating a “dictionary” of specific pragmemes to analyze linguistic data. … It offers a model description of a pragmeme, based on an impressive range of data from all over the world …” (Dorota Zielinska, Jagiellonian University, Poland)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death
Editors: Vahid Parvaresh, Alessandro Capone
Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55759-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55758-8Published: 12 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85738-1Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55759-5Published: 02 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2214-3807
Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 480
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics