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OverviewThe volume brings together twenty articles written by established linguists, language philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, sharing their academic interest in a broad and interdisciplinary field of linguistic pragmatics. The collection consists of four thematic parts: Pragmatics and Cognition, The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Conversational and Text Analysis and Pragmatics, Social Research and Didactics. It aims to contribute to the debate on the present-day status of pragmatics, by examining three fundamental issues. The first involves the question of the current explanatory power of pragmatics, namely, how successful is the existing apparatus of pragmatics and the basic-level parameters (theories of speech acts, relevance, implicature, presupposition, deixis, politeness, etc.) in the elucidation of various aspects of meaning. The second issue involves the methodological assistance that pragmatics might need in order to enhance its explanatory power. The third has to do with the fuzzily defined boundaries of the discipline of pragmatics and the resulting temptation for analysts to concentrate solely on its fragmented sub-domains. As the collection unfolds, these issues form a continuum which, it seems, is often a process that a linguist goes through as his or her methodological awareness deepens. Thus, the orientation of the volume towards the analyst and the analytic mind-set, as well as the attempted balance in presentation of the alternative approaches, seem the major theoretical characteristic of the book. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Piotr Cap , Joanna NijakowskaPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781847182074ISBN 10: 1847182070 Pages: 430 Publication Date: 15 June 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis anthology excellently illustrates the current understanding of pragmatics as a multidisciplinary approach that involves the relationship between cognitive processes, socio-cultural facts, and language use and language form. With its twenty chapters this impressive volume presents a wide-ranging, lucid and stimulating state-of-the-art overview of key theoretical issues, empirical research, and various forms of analyses of linguistic phenomena within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Moroever, it also emphasizes the relevance of pragmatics for other social, especially political and applied research. It is a valuable contribution to pragmatics and will be of interest for many students and scholars in many disciplines . Prof. Dr. Gunter SenftMax-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Senior Editor of Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association This anthology excellently illustrates the current understanding of pragmatics as a multidisciplinary approach that involves the relationship between cognitive processes, socio-cultural facts, and language use and language form. With its twenty chapters this impressive volume presents a wide-ranging, lucid and stimulating state-of-the-art overview of key theoretical issues, empirical research, and various forms of analyses of linguistic phenomena within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Moroever, it also emphasizes the relevance of pragmatics for other social, especially political and applied research. It is a valuable contribution to pragmatics and will be of interest for many students and scholars in many disciplines . Prof. Dr. Gunter Senft Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Senior Editor of Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association Author InformationPiotr Cap is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Lodz, Poland. He has been research fellow at UC Berkeley, Birmingham University, the University of Munich and Boston University. His interests are in pragmatics, political discourse and methodology of linguistics. His book publications include Explorations in Political Discourse (Lang, 2002), Pragmatics Today (Lang, 2005) and Legitimization in Political Discourse (CSP, 2006). He is editor of the international journal Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP).Joanna Nijakowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psycholinguistics and Language Didactics at the University of Lodz, Poland. She specializes in the psychological, neurolinguistic and pragmatic aspects of language comprehension and processing. She has lectured at several European academic centers, including the University of Tampere, the University of York and Manchester University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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