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Pragmatics of Fiction provides systematic orientation in the
emerging field of studying pragmatics with/in fictional data. It
provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile
new field in its methodological and theoretical richness. Giving
center stage to fictional language allows scholars to review key
concepts in sociolinguistics such as genre, style, voice, stance,
dialogue, participation structure or features of orality and
literariness. The contributors explore language as one of the
creative tools to craft story worlds and characters by drawing on
concepts such as regional, social and ethnic language variation, as
well as multilingualism. Themes such as emotion, taboo language or
impoliteness in fiction receive attention just as the challenges of
translation and dubbing, the creation of past and future languages,
the impact of fictional language on language change or the fuzzy
boundaries of narratives. Each contribution, written by a leading
specialist, gives a succinct, representative and up-to-date
overview of research questions, theories, methods and recent
developments in the field.
This collection combines research from the field of (im)politeness
studies with research on language pedagogy and language learning.
It aims to engender a useful dialogue between (im)politeness
theorists, language teachers, and SLA researchers, and also to
broaden the enquiry to naturalistic contexts other than L2
acquisition classrooms, by formulating 'teaching' and 'learning' as
processes of socialization, cultural transmission, and adaptation.
This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in
use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity,
or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in
a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as
well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines
within linguistics and communication studies and provides a
multifaceted perspective on both theoretical and applied approaches
to the role of language in relational work. views pragmatics from
both theoretical and applied perspectives meets the needs of the
international pragmatic community includes pragmatically relevant
entries from adjacent fields such as philosophy, anthropology and
sociology, neuroscience and psychology, semantics, grammar and text
and discourse analysis provides reliable overviews useful not only
to researchers but also to students and teachers
The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between
academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to
impoliteness phenomena. Researchers working with Brown and
Levinson's ([1978] 1987) seminal work on politeness rarely focused
explicitly on impoliteness. As a result, only one aspect of
facework/relational work has been studied in detail. Next to this
research desideratum, politeness research is on the move again,
with alternative conceptions of politeness to those of Brown and
Levinson being further developed. In this volume researchers
present, discuss and explore the concept of linguistic
impoliteness, the crucial differences and interconnectedness
between lay understandings of impoliteness and the academic concept
within a theory of facework/relational work, as well as the
exercise of power that is involved when impoliteness occurs. The
authors offer solid discussions of the theoretical issues involved
and draw on data from political interaction, interaction with
legally constituted authorities, workplace interaction in the
factory and the office, code-switching and Internet practices. The
collection offers inspiration for research on impoliteness in many
different research fields, such as (critical) discourse analysis,
conversation analysis, pragmatics and stylistics, as well as
linguistic approaches to studies in conflict and conflict
resolution.
The theme of this collection is a discussion of the notions of
'norms' and 'standards', which are studied from various different
angles, but always in relation to the English language. These terms
are to be understood in a very wide sense, allowing discussions of
topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the
benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English
dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to
the standard language. The collection is organized into three
parts, each of which covers an important research field for the
study of norms and standards. Part 1 is entitled "English over time
and space" and is further divided into three thematic subgroups:
standard and non-standard features in English varieties and
dialects; research on English standardization processes; and issues
of standards and norms in oral production. Part 2 deals with
"English usage in non-native contexts," and Part 3 is dedicated to
"Issues on politeness and impoliteness." The notions of standards
and norms are equally important concepts for historical linguists,
sociolinguists with a variationist background, applied linguists,
pragmaticians, and discourse analysts.
This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in
the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data.
Power and politeness are important phenomena in face-to-face
interaction. Disagreement is an arena in which these two key
concepts are likely to be observed together: both disagreement and
the exercise of power entail a conflict, and, at the same time,
conflict will often be softened by the display of politeness
(defined as marked relational work). The concept of power is of
special interest to the field of linguistics in that language is
one of the primary means to exercise power. Often correlated with
status and regarded as an influential aspect of situated speech,
the workings of the exercise of power, however, have rarely been
formally articulated. This study provides a theoretical framework
within which to analyze the observed instances of disagreement and
their co-occurrence with the exercise of power and display of
politeness. In this framework, a checklist of propositions that
allow us to operationalize the concept of power and identify its
exercise in naturalistic linguistic data is combined with a view of
language as socially constructed. A qualitative approach is used to
analyze the concepts of power and politeness. The material for
analysis comes from three different contexts: (1) a sociable
argument in an informal, supportive and interactive family setting,
(2) a business meeting among colleagues within a research
institution, and (3) examples from public discourse collected
during the US Election 2000.
This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal
pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we
survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation;
second, we present the current and methodologically innovative
avenues of research in the field. We focus on three pragmatics
issues - relational work, participation structure, and mediality -
that we foreground as promising loci of research on translational
data. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on
translation/interpreting over time, and then outlining our
understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation as a field, we
arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent
desiderata for future research. These questions identify the paths
that can be productively explored through synergies of the
linguistic pragmatics framework and translation data. In two case
study chapters, we offer two example studies addressing some of the
questions we identified as suggestions for future research.
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Corpus Pragmatics (Paperback)
Daniela Landert, Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli, Miriam A. Locher
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R566
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This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that
different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic
phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and
data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. In
addition, the Element identifies areas in which new methodological
developments are needed in order to make new types of data
accessible for pragmatic research. Linguistic corpora are currently
undergoing diversification. While one trend is to move towards
increasingly large corpora, another trend is to enhance corpora
with more specialised and layered annotation. Both these trends
offer new challenges and opportunities for the study of pragmatics.
This volume provides a practical overview of state-of-the-art
corpus-pragmatic methods in relation to different types of corpus
data, covering established methods as well as innovative
approaches.
This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics
of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are
complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve
attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it
highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich
in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic
theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure
of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts,
(3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional
texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical
linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation.
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