Interdisciplinary studies in pragmatics, culture and society
(Heidelberg, Springer, July 2014).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics, linguistics, and socio-cultural
diversity
I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics seen through the prism of society.
Istvan Kecskes, Can intercultural pragmatics bring some new insight into pragmatics
theories?
Linda R. Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Khaled Al Masaeed, Tom Hong Do, and Paul
Renigar, Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to
Pragmatics, Critique and Trends.
Wayne A. Davis, Pronouns and neo-Gricean pragmatics
Louise Cummings, Pragmatic disorders and social functioning: a lifespan
perspective.
Edda Weigand, The dialogic principle revisited. Speech acts and mental states.
Felice Cimatti, Philosophy and psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein, on «language-games»
and ethics.
Katarzyna Jaszczolt, E. Savva and M. Haugh, The Individual and the Social Path of
Interpretation: The Case of Incomplete Disjunctive Questions.
Teun van Dijk, Discourse and racism. Some Conclusions of 30 years of research.
Neal Norrick, Discourse Markers in Oral Narrative
Anna Gladkova, Propositional attitudes and cultural scripts
Jacob L. Mey, Modular, cellular, integral: a pragmatic elephant?
Alessandro Capone, What can pragmatics learn from the law? (On Recanati’s cases
of modulation, indirect reporting and cancellability of explicatures).
II. LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Keith Allan, A benchmark for politeness
Jonathan Culpeper, Impoliteness strategies.
Frans van Eemeren and Bart Garssen, Reconstructing argumentative discourse with
the help of speech act conditions.
Fabrizio Macagno, Presupposition as argumentative reasoning
Alan Libert, Adpositions, Deixis, and Anti-Deixis
Brian E. Butler, Transparency and Context in Legal Communication: Pragmatics and
Legal Interpretation
Lucia Morra, Conversational implicatures in normative texts
III. DISCOURSE
Donal Carbaugh, Cultural Discourse Analysis: Communication Practices and
Intercultural Encounters
Hartmut Haberland, Janus Mortensen, Transcription as second-order
entextualizations: the challenge of heteroglossia.
Cornelia Ilie, Metadiscursive strategies in dialogue: Legitimising confrontational
rhetoric
Sarah Blackwell, “Porque in Spanish oral narratives: Semantic porque, (meta)
pragmatic porque or both?”
Jacques Moeschler, Argumentation and Connectives. How Do Discourse Connectives
Constrain Argumentation and Utterance Interpretations.
Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Some reflections on the origin of reason through an outline of the
genealogy of language in the light of homonymity, analogy and metaphor.
IV. THE PRAGMATICS OF UTTERANCE
Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson, Joint utterances and the (Split-) Turn
Taking Puzzle
Tamar Katriel, The metapragmatics of direct utterances
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach & Patricia Andueza, The pragmatics of embedded exclamatives
Adam Croom, An Assessment of the Negative and Positive Aspects of Stereotypes
and the Derogatory and Non-Derogatory Uses of Slurs.
V. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Jock Wong, A critical look at the description of speech acts
Jock Wong, The pragmatics of kéyĭ (‘can’) in Singapore Mandarin
Brian Poole, Collectivism and coercion: The social practice of ‘sharing’ and
distinctive uses of the verb ‘share’ in contemporary Singapore.
John Wakefield, Emotional Feelings as a Form of Evidence: A Case Study of
Visceral Evidentiality in Mormon Culture.
Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan, Rituals of death as staged communicative acts
and pragmemes.
Jacob L. Mey, Twenty-seven views of language socialization