Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language.
The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of research work published in the local languages, the volume also includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages.
A rivetting discourse on pragmatics research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike.
Author(s): Xinren Chen, Doreen Dongying Wu
Series: Routledge Research in Pragmatics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the book
1.2 Aims of the book
1.3 Scope of the book
Part 1 Indigenous pragmatic research on East Asian languages
2 Indigenous pragmatic research on Chinese
2.1 Speech acts
2.2 Deixis
2.3 Conversation Analysis
2.4 Discourse Analysis
2.5 Discourse markers
2.6 Face and (im)politeness
2.7 Other topics of interest
3 Indigenous pragmatic research on Japanese
3.1 Speech acts
3.2 Deixis
3.3 Conversation Analysis
3.4 Discourse Analysis
3.5 Discourse markers and grammaticalization
3.6 Face and (im)politeness
3.7 Other topics of interest
4 Indigenous pragmatic research on Korean
4.1 Speech acts
4.2 Deixis
4.3 Conversation Analysis
4.4 Discourse Analysis
4.5 Discourse markers and grammaticalization
4.6 Face and (im)politeness
4.7 Other topics of interest
Part 2 International pragmatic research on East Asian languages
5 Research on (Mandarin) Chinese
5.1 Speech acts
5.2 Pragmatic markers
5.3 Face and (im)politeness
5.4 Pragmatics and semantics/syntax interface
5.5 Identity construction
5.6 Other topics of interest
6 International pragmatic research on Japanese
6.1 Speech acts
6.2 Deixis
6.3 Conversation Analysis
6.4 Discourse Analysis
6.5 Discourse markers and grammaticalization
6.6 Face and (im)politeness
7 International pragmatic research on Korean
7.1 Speech acts
7.2 Honorifics
7.3 Discourse markers
7.4 Non-verbal aspects of politeness
7.5 Conversation Analysis
Part 3 Contrastive pragmatics involving East Asian languages
8 Contrastive pragmatics within East Asian languages
8.1 CP between Chinese and Japanese
8.2 Contrastive pragmatics between Japanese and Korean
8.3 CP between Korean and Chinese
9 Contrastive pragmatics beyond East Asian languages
9.1 Contrastive pragmatics between Chinese and non–East Asian languages
9.2 CP between Japanese and non–East Asian languages
9.3 CP between Korean and other languages
10 Conclusion
10.1 Summary: commonalities and variations
10.2 Implications and future directions
References
Index
