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Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 914

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

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 ...

The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and Pragmatics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Socio-Cognitive Approach to Communication and Pragmatics

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broadens the scope of the field with an intent to incorporate not only L1 communication but also intercultural communication, and communication in a second language. The author integrates the pragmatic view of cooperation and the cognitive view of egocentrism and emphasizes that both cooperation and egocentrism are manifested in all phases of communication, albeit to varying extents. SCA places equal importance on the social and cognitive individual factors in pragmatics. The author claims that while (social) cooperation is an intention-directed practice that is governed by relevance, (individual) egocentrism is an attention-oriented trait dominated by salience. The book serves as a theoretical guide for researchers and students who would like to understand how we need to change first language-based theories to make sense of what happens not only in L1 but also in intercultural and multi-lingual interactions.

International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS) – volume 10(4)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS) – volume 10(4)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-26
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

Esmaeel Ali SALIMI, Mohammad Meisam SAFARZADEH & Abbas MONFARED: Teaching grammar: Language teachers' cognition and classroom practices (1-18); Alessandro CAPONE: Slurring in indirect-reporting (19-36); Ricardo CASAN-PITARCH: Case study on banks' webpages: The use of personal pronouns (37-58); Yuxiu HU: A longitudinal study on the extent of Mandarin influence on the acquisition of English (59-76); Abbas Ali REZAEE & Mahsa GHANBARPOUR: The measurement paradigm and role of mediators in dynamic assessment: A qualitative meta-synthesis (77-108); Ali KAZEMI: Hedging in academic writing: The case of Iranian EFL journals (109-130); and Mohammad Ali SALMANI NODOUSHAN: Working on the 'write' path: Improving EFL students' argumentative-writing performance through L1-mediated structural cognitive modification (131-152)

Thermofluid Dynamics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Thermofluid Dynamics

This book gathers ten thermofluid dynamics problems involving the use of analytical solutions. All these problems have been encountered by the author during his research activity; some of the solutions are his own contributions, while others either are classic literature results or can be derived from them. The physical phenomena involved range from pure hydrodynamics to flow with heat or mass transfer, two-phase flow, and magnetohydrodynamics. The problems discussed are not canonical problems; they are rarely found in textbooks, and often exhibit surprising, or even paradoxical, solutions. The potential readership of the book includes students, teachers and scientists in science and engineering interested in fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer: to them it may offer food for thought, suggestions for lectures or tutorials and ideas for further original developments.

Exploring Contextualism and Performativity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Exploring Contextualism and Performativity

This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied. This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language.

Keeping Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Keeping Time

Keeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in Honour of Linda Barwick explores current issues in ethnomusicology and the archiving and repatriation of ethnographic field recordings. The 19 chapters by 36 authors consider archiving practices as a site of interaction between researchers and cultural heritage communities; cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding song; and the role of musical transcription in non-Western music. This volume is international in scope with case studies with Indigenous and minority peoples from Papua New Guinea, China, India, the Torres Strait and mainland Aboriginal Australia; the latter being the focus of the majority of chapters. Topics include the reviv...

Discourse in Old Norse Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Discourse in Old Norse Literature

An examination of what dialogues and direct speech in Old Norse literature can convey and mean, beyond their immediate face-value.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 980

Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-07-31
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  • Publisher: Springer

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 investigat...

Statutory Interpretation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Statutory Interpretation

  • Categories: Law

Combining pragmatics, dialectics, analytics, and legal theory, this work translates interpretative canons into patterns of natural argument.

Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Irregular Negatives, Implicatures, and Idioms

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives—several previously unclassified—are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional. The author argues that two of the irregular negative meanings are implicatures. The others are semantically rather than pragmatically ambiguous. Since their ambiguity is neither lexical nor structural, direct irregular negatives satisfy the standard definition of idioms as syntactically complex expressions whose meaning is non-compositional. Unlike stereotypical idioms, idiomatic negatives lack fixed syntactic forms and are highly compositional. The final chapter analyzes other “free form” idioms, including irregular interrogatives and comparatives, self-restricted verb phrases, numerical verb phrases, and transparent propositional attitude and speech act reports.