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Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

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Editors:
  1. Keith Allan

    1. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Alessandro Capone

    1. Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

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  3. Istvan Kecskes

    1. State University of New York, Albany, USA

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  • Offers an integrative holistic approach to the current debate in pragmatics and adjacent territories
  • Articles by senior researchers on language from a societal perspective
  • Represents new areas of pragmatics, like the pragmeme and pragmatic acts

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 9)

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Table of contents (44 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Pragmemes: Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Deliberate Creativity and Formulaic Language Use

      • Istvan Kecskes
      Pages 3-20

    3. Aspects of Anaphora in Chinese and in Some Germanic, Romance, and Slavic Languages, the ‘Syntactic’ Versus ‘Pragmatic’ Language Typology, and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics

      • Yan Huang (黄衍)
      Pages 21-43

    4. Presuppositions as Cancellable Inferences

      • Fabrizio Macagno, Alessandro Capone
      Pages 45-68

    5. The Pragmeme of Insult and Some Allopracts

      • Keith Allan
      Pages 69-84

    6. Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of the Pragmeme

      • Douglas Robinson
      Pages 85-104

    7. Pragmatics Seen Through the Prism of Society

      • Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 105-132

    8. Why We Need the Pragmeme, or: Speech Acting and Its Peripeties

      • Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 133-140

    9. On the Meaning of Questions

      • Ferenc Kiefer
      Pages 141-148

    10. Narratives in Conversation as Pragmemes

      • Neal R. Norrick
      Pages 149-166

    11. Prompting Social Action as a Higher-Order Pragmatic Act

      • Michael Haugh
      Pages 167-190

    12. Metapragmatics, Hidden Assumptions, and Moral Economy

      • Norman Fairclough
      Pages 191-208

    13. Terms of Address in European Languages: A Study in Cross-Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics

      • Anna Wierzbicka
      Pages 209-238

    14. Practs and Facts

      • Jacob L. Mey
      Pages 239-248

    15. Pragmemes in Discourse

      • Anita Fetzer
      Pages 249-264

    16. “TONGUE-TIED”: Pragmemes and Practs of Silence in Literary Texts

      • Dennis Kurzon
      Pages 265-285

    17. Towards a Pragmatic-Semantic Continuum. The Process of Naming

      • Grazia Basile
      Pages 287-303

    18. Towards a “Theory of Everything” in Human Communication

      • Andra Vasilescu
      Pages 305-333

    19. Austin’s Speech Acts and Mey’s Pragmemes

      • Etsuko Oishi
      Pages 335-350
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About this book

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.
This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Keith Allan

  • Department of Cognitive Science, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Alessandro Capone

  • State University of New York, Albany, USA

    Istvan Kecskes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

  • Editors: Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone, Istvan Kecskes

  • Series Title: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43490-2Published: 18 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82838-1Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43491-9Published: 10 January 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2214-3807

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-3815

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 910

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Semantics

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