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The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death

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Editors:
  1. Vahid Parvaresh

    1. Department of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  2. Alessandro Capone

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

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Death, Dying and the Pragmeme

    • Vahid Parvaresh
    Pages 1-13

  3. Death and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Catholic Rituals of Death and Funeral Homily: A Socio-pragmatic Survey in Southern Italy

      • Elvira Assenza
      Pages 17-44

    3. Pragmeme(s) of Sympathy Cards in the Midwestern US

      • Richard W. Hallett
      Pages 45-60

    4. Panegyrists, Vagueness and the Pragmeme

      • Vahid Parvaresh
      Pages 61-81

    5. Grief Interactions Among Emerging Adults on College Campuses

      • Mary Alice Varga
      Pages 83-94

    6. Pre-funeral Condolence Visits as Pragmemes

      • Konosoang Sobane, Cyril Adonis
      Pages 95-110

    7. Socio-cultural Factors in Analyzing the Pragmeme of Accommodation: A Case Study of the Official Online Eulogy Request System in Taiwan

      • Wei-lun Lu
      Pages 111-127

    8. The Pragmeme of Accommodation in Yorùbá Death Events

      • Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni
      Pages 129-144

    9. Specifying Pragmemes: The Case of Expressing Condolences in Memorial Advertisements

      • Gregor Walczak
      Pages 145-159

    10. Stories of Grief and Loss: How College Students Learned to Listen

      • Barbara A. McDonald
      Pages 161-179

  4. Death Across Languages and Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. To Be Headed for the West, Riding a Crane: Chinese Pragmemes in the Wake of Someone’s Passing

      • Adrian Tien
      Pages 183-202

    3. English vs. Japanese Condolences: What People Say and Why

      • John C. Wakefield, Hiroko Itakura
      Pages 203-231

    4. On Death in Artificial Languages

      • Alan Reed Libert
      Pages 233-257

    5. Toward a Pragmatic Study of Funeral Discourses in Taiwan: Voice, Shared Situation Knowledge, and Metaphor

      • Ming-Yu Tseng
      Pages 259-276

    6. Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German

      • Philipp Hänggi, Catherine Diederich
      Pages 277-299

    7. Sacrificed, Lost or Gave Life for Their Country: Cognitive Analysis of Euphemisms for Death in G.W. Bush and B. Obama’s War Speeches

      • Ivana Moritz
      Pages 301-318

    8. Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Perspectives on the Emotional and Pragmatic Expression of Sympathy in Spanish and English

      • Jocelly G. Meiners
      Pages 319-348
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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

“This volume addresses a unique and intriguing topic: death and dying. The editors included chapters that deal with the issue from a variety of perspective.  The main strength of the book is that the “loose ends” are still kept together by the application of the notion of “pragmeme of accommodation” throughout the volume. This book is an excellent read for anybody who is interested in linguistics, pragmatics, philosophy and psychology.”  (Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, USA)

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Vahid Parvaresh

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

    Alessandro Capone

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

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