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Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian
pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is
written and published in local languages. As a result, research
published in and about a particular East Asian language has been
largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language. The
contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing
outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages
(Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number
of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse
markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and
face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of
research work published in the local languages, the volume also
includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated
articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting
them with other languages. A rivetting discourse on pragmatics
research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars
alike.
Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or
a city, which forms part of the social environment of a country or
a region. Based on extensive first-hand data collected from public
places, mass media and the Internet, this monograph attempts
critical pragmatic studies of public discourse in the contemporary
Chinese context. By applying pragmatic theories and analytical
instruments to the analysis of the data, including business names,
advertisements, public signs and notices, and news, the book
showcases such discursive practices as personalization and
subjectivization and reveals such social problems as unhealthy
social mentalities, "pragmatic traps", suspect discrimination, and
vulgarity. It exemplifies a way of combining the Critical Discourse
Analysis (CDA) approach and the pragmatic approach with a clear
focus on the pragmatic issues. This book will not only be a
necessary addition to the academic discipline of pragmatics in
general, and critical pragmatics in particular, but also lay bare
the problems existing in the use of public discourse and suggest
several ways to improve such use. While it addresses the Chinese
data only, the proposed analyses may contribute to international
readers' understanding of public discourse in contemporary China
and serve as a reference for similar researches worldwide.
Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or
a city, which forms part of the social environment of a country or
a region. Based on extensive first-hand data collected from public
places, mass media and the Internet, this monograph attempts
critical pragmatic studies of public discourse in the contemporary
Chinese context. By applying pragmatic theories and analytical
instruments to the analysis of the data, including business names,
advertisements, public signs and notices, and news, the book
showcases such discursive practices as personalization and
subjectivization and reveals such social problems as unhealthy
social mentalities, "pragmatic traps", suspect discrimination, and
vulgarity. It exemplifies a way of combining the Critical Discourse
Analysis (CDA) approach and the pragmatic approach with a clear
focus on the pragmatic issues. This book will not only be a
necessary addition to the academic discipline of pragmatics in
general, and critical pragmatics in particular, but also lay bare
the problems existing in the use of public discourse and suggest
several ways to improve such use. While it addresses the Chinese
data only, the proposed analyses may contribute to international
readers' understanding of public discourse in contemporary China
and serve as a reference for similar researches worldwide.
This volume looks at politeness phenomena in a culture and country
that is becoming the most influential in the world. It is the first
book to survey politeness variations across different genres in
Chinese and will fill a gap in both politeness research in general
and in Chinese politeness research in particular.
There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is
often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to
impact the outcome of the interaction. Filling an important gap in
current research, this book offers the first systematic, pragmatic
theory to account for the generative mechanisms of identity in
communication. Using data drawn from real-life communicative
contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are
adopted, how and why identities are constructed and what factors
determine their appropriateness and effectiveness. In answering
these questions, this book argues that identity is an essential
communicative resource, present across various domains and able to
be exploited to facilitate the realization of communicative needs.
Demonstrating that communication in Chinese involves the dynamic
choice and shift of identity by discursive means, Exploring
Identity Work in Chinese Communication suggests that identity is
intersubjective in communication in all languages and that it can
be accepted, challenged, or even deconstructed.
There is growing acceptance among pragmaticians that identity is
often (de)constructed and negotiated in communication in order to
impact the outcome of the interaction. Filling an important gap in
current research, this book offers the first systematic, pragmatic
theory to account for the generative mechanisms of identity in
communication. Using data drawn from real-life communicative
contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are
adopted, how and why identities are constructed and what factors
determine their appropriateness and effectiveness. In answering
these questions, this book argues that identity is an essential
communicative resource, present across various domains and able to
be exploited to facilitate the realization of communicative needs.
Demonstrating that communication in Chinese involves the dynamic
choice and shift of identity by discursive means, Exploring
Identity Work in Chinese Communication suggests that identity is
intersubjective in communication in all languages and that it can
be accepted, challenged, or even deconstructed.
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