Overview
- 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)
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Theoretical Foundations
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Linguistics and Pragmatics
Keywords
- Paul Grice coversational implicature
- Wittgenstein praxis
- autistic discourse pragmatic disorders
- conversational implicatures
- critical discourse analysis
- critical linguistics
- cultural analysis of discourse
- intercultural pragmatics
- language and social norms
- language games
- pragmatics and culture
- pragmatics and philosophy of language
- pragmatics and politics
- pragmatics and the law
- pragmatics of Singapore Mandarin
- pragmemes
- principles of language use
- societal practices
- societal pragmatics
- theory of pragmemes
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
“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
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