Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultural Aspects

by Istvan Kecskes (Editor), Laurence R. Horn (Editor)

Overview

This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics. Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psychology, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and communication. Recent theoretical and empirical advances in these fields has motivated scholars to reexamine and revise some of the central tenets of pragmatics, and it is this reexamination which lies at the heart of the papers in this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110198843
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	707 KB

About the Author

Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany, USA;Laurence R. Horn , Yale University, New Haven,USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction Istvan Kecskes Laurence R. Horn 1

Part I Philosophical and Linguistic Aspects

What is language: Some preliminary remarks John R. Searle 7

Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung Laurence R. Horn 39

Part II Cognitive Aspects

The role of explicature in communication and in intercultural communication Jacques Moeschler 73

Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization Francisco Jose Ruiz de Mendoza Annalisa Baicchi 95

"A good Arab is not a dead Arab - a racist incitement": On the accessibility of negated concepts Rachel Giora 129

Part III Intercultural Aspects

Developing pragmatics interculturally Jacob L. Mey 165

Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca Istvan Kecskes 191

Language evolution, pragmatic inference, and the use of English as a lingua franca Peter Grundy 219

On non-reductionalist intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedure Gitte Kristiansen Dirk Geeraerts 257

From downgrading to (over) intensifying: a pragmatic study in English and French Helene Margerie 287

Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of cooperation Marina Terkourafi 313

Index 345

Editorial Reviews

"The editors of this volume should be credited for presenting a high-quality collection of papers contributed by scholars active in pragmatics studies. The value of this volume lies in inviting the reader to rethink some of the key aspects of pragmatics that are so essential to human interaction and mutual understanding. This volume should be of great value to anyone interested in pragmatics."
Chaoqun Xie and Juliane House in: Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2/2009

"All in all, the ‘explorations’ live up to the promise in the title: they offer not a specialist morsel but a wide horizon, depicted in most contributions in a precise and principled way – a welcome venture in the times of the compartmentalization of pragmatic research. The papers are thought provoking to various degrees and contentious to various degrees but all are worth reading. The book is also the first volume in a new Mouton Series in Pragmatics edited by Istvan Kecskes and a successful springboard for what is to come."
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt in: Multilingua 2/2008

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