Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics
Title | Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Rong Chen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2022-07-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110787709 |
With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust – a complete rejection by some – of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts. The model, with its well-laid out components, is then applied to (im)politeness research, cross-cultural pragmatics, diachronic pragmatics, discourse and genre analysis, conversation analysis, identity construction, and the study of metaphor, sarcasm, parody, and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions, specificity with general principles, and differences with similar underlying factors. As such, the book should appeal to students of pragmatics, (im)politeness, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication, sociology, and psychology.
Critical Pragmatics
Title | Critical Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Kepa Korta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2011-07-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1139498509 |
Critical Pragmatics develops three ideas: language is a way of doing things with words; meanings of phrases and contents of utterances derive ultimately from human intentions; and language combines with other factors to allow humans to achieve communicative goals. In this book, Kepa Korta and John Perry explain why critical pragmatics provides a coherent picture of how parts of language study fit together within the broader picture of human thought and action. They focus on issues about singular reference, that is, talk about particular things, places or people, which have played a central role in the philosophy of language for more than a century. They argue that attention to the 'reflexive' or 'utterance-bound' contents of utterances sheds new light on these old problems. Their important study proposes a new approach to pragmatics and should be of wide interest to philosophers of language and linguists.
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Title | Interlanguage Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriele Kasper |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 1993-08-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019536211X |
As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, documenting from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book consists of three sections. The first concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development; the second, interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts; and the third, discoursal perspectives on interlanguage. Each section is prefaced by an introduction by the editors which provides relevant theoretical and methodological background. The editors' general introduction offers a critical overview of the issues currently debated. This book is the first to exclusively address the pragmatic dimension in second language acquistion, presenting a state-of-the-art view of the field and outlining directions for future research.
Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social understanding research
Title | Towards an embodied science of intersubjectivity: Widening the scope of social understanding research PDF eBook |
Author | Ezequiel Di Paolo |
Publisher | Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2015-06-16 |
Genre | Intersubjectivity |
ISBN | 2889195295 |
An important amount of research effort in psychology and neuroscience over the past decades has focused on the problem of social cognition. This problem is understood as how we figure out other minds, relying only on indirect manifestations of other people's intentional states, which are assumed to be hidden, private and internal. Research on this question has mostly investigated how individual cognitive mechanisms achieve this task. A shift in the internalist assumptions regarding intentional states has expanded the research focus with hypotheses that explore the role of interactive phenomena and interpersonal histories and their implications for understanding individual cognitive processes. This interactive expansion of the conceptual and methodological toolkit for investigating social cognition, we now propose, can be followed by an expansion into wider and deeply-related research questions, beyond (but including) that of social cognition narrowly construed. Our social lives are populated by different kinds of cognitive and affective phenomena that are related to but not exhausted by the question of how we figure out other minds. These phenomena include acting and perceiving together, verbal and non-verbal engagement, experiences of (dis-)connection, management of relations in a group, joint meaning-making, intimacy, trust, conflict, negotiation, asymmetric relations, material mediation of social interaction, collective action, contextual engagement with socio-cultural norms, structures and roles, etc. These phenomena are often characterized by a strong participation by the cognitive agent in contrast with the spectatorial stance typical of social cognition research. We use the broader notion of embodied intersubjectivity to refer to this wider set of phenomena. This Research Topic aims to investigate relations between these different issues, to help lay strong foundations for a science of intersubjectivity – the social mind writ large. To contribute to this goal, we encouraged contributions in psychology, neuroscience, psychopathology, philosophy, and cognitive science that address this wider scope of intersubjectivity by extending the range of explanatory factors from purely individual to interactive, from observational to participatory.
Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Title | Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus-Uwe Panther |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902725821X |
This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought, e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy, the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning, in particular, indirect speech acts, to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally, the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure, communicative function, and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.
Chinese Politeness
Title | Chinese Politeness PDF eBook |
Author | Rong Chen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 217 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1009281186 |
Through a thorough treatment of Chinese politeness, this book argues that universalism is of paramount importance in politeness theorizing.
Second Language Pragmatics
Title | Second Language Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Arline Burgmeier |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2020-02-07 |
Genre | Study Aids |
ISBN | 0194200558 |
Inside Reading Second Edition is a five-level academic reading series that develops students’ reading skills and teaches key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List.