Overview

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or interactional angles, this 8th volume focuses on theories and phenomena at the level of discourse, but leaving aside conversational interaction. It provides the reader with pragmatics-oriented information on discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and critical linguistics, as well as text linguistics and appraisal theory, while introducing other specific approaches to discourse through concepts such as polyphony, intertextuality, genre, and énonciation. Furthermore, topics such as public discourse, narrative, figures of speech, cohesion and coherence, pragmatic markers, manipulation, and humor, are all dealt with in separate chapters. The binding idea, explained in the introduction, is that ´discursive pragmatics´ may serve as a platform for a diversity of perspectives on discourse, as they have emerged not only in the language sciences but also in the humanities and social sciences in general.

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Author:   Jan Zienkowski (University of Antwerp) ,  Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki) ,  Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9789027207852

ISBN 10:   9027207852
Pages:   307
Publication Date:   16 June 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface to the series; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Discursive pragmatics: A platform for the pragmatic study of discourse (by Zienkowski, Jan); 4. Appraisal (by White, Peter R.R.); 5. Cohesion and coherence (by Bublitz, Wolfram); 6. Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (by Wodak, Ruth); 7. Enonciation: French pragmatic approach(es) (by Johansson, Marjut); 8. Figures of Speech (by Kienpointner, Manfred); 9. Genre (by Solin, Anna); 10. Humor (by Attardo, Salvatore); 11. Intertextuality (by Slembrouck, Stef); 12. Manipulation (by Chilton, Paul); 13. Narrative (by Georgakopoulou, Alexandra); 14. Polyphony (by Roulet, Eddy); 15. Pragmatic markers (by Aijmer, Karin); 16. Public discourse (by Sarangi, Srikant); 17. Text and discourse linguistics (by Ostman, Jan-Ola); 18. Text linguistics (by Beaugrande, Robert de)

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The book brings new insights to some existing topics and the rethinking of this old issue provides coherence to the volume. Another strength of the work is that most chapters end with stimulating questions for future research, extending the overview of the topics involved. [...] this book is not only a valuable asset to pragmatics and discourse studies, but it will also be welcomed by those who work in areas such as cognitive linguistics, social linguistics, literature and applied linguistics. -- Fan Zhen-qiang, Zhejiang GongShang University, PR China, in Discourse Studies, 15:1 (2013)

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