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 other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, culture is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today."
Author(s): Gunter Senft (editor); Jan-Ola Östman (editor); Jef Verschueren (editor)
Series: Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights (2)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 280
Culture and Language Use
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface to the series
Acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Aisatsu
1. Introduction: The pragmatics and metapragmatics of routine formulae
2. The anatomy of aisatsu
2.1 Marking social relationships
2.2 Marking contextual boundaries
3. The social acquisition of aisatsu
3.1 Aisatsu in school contexts
3.2 Aisatsu in workplace contexts
4. The pragmatics of aisatsu within the metapragmatics of aisatsu
5. Exploring intercultural routine formulae
References
Anthropological linguistics
1. Preliminaries
2. Early history
3. Early types of research
4. Continuity
5. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
6. Ethnographic semantics
7. The ethnography of communication
8. Sociolinguistics
9. Recent research and current directions
References
Franz Boas
1. Introduction
2. Biography
3. The Americanist tradition
4. Time perspective in aboriginal languages
5. The Handbook of American Indian Languages
6. Phonetics vs. phonemics
7. Assessment
References
Cognitive anthropology
1. Historical background
2. Reconstruing cognitive anthropology
References
Componential analysis
1. Introduction
2. The structuralist tradition
3. Linguistic anthropology
4. Generative and typological studies
5. Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)
6. Other trends and problems
References
Cultural scripts
1. Introduction
2. Semantic primes: The language of cultural scripts
3. High-level scripts: Examples and observations
4. Communicative style: Some further examples
5. Culture-specific concepts in cultural scripts
6. Rhetorical speech practices
7. Scripts for ways of thinking and feeling, and for beliefs
8. Scripts for social models
9. Scripts for non-verbal communicative practices
10. The accessibility and practicality of cultural scripts
11. Closing note
References
Culture
1. Introduction: Culture as an interdisciplinary project
2. Defining and redefining culture: An overview
2.1. The historical transformation of the culture concept
2.2 What is not culture
2.3 What is culture
2.3.1 The whole is the sum of parts: The mentalist approach
2.3.2 A map of and for behavior: The behaviorist approach
2.3.3 The metaphor of culture as text: The semiotic approach
2.4 Culture is a verb
3. Culture as ideology: From a consensual to a differentiated view of culture
3.1 The construction of the cultural other
3.2 The politics of cultural difference in stratified multicultural societies
4. Doing cultural analysis: A critique of the method
4.1 The dominance of intensive fieldwork
4.2 The subjectivity of participant observation
4.3 Doing and writing ethnography as interpretation and invention
5. Culture as communication: The ‘linguistic’ turn
5.1. One language — one culture?
5.2 Language as a means to cultural resources
6. Cross-cultural and intercultural analysis in pragmatic research
6.1 Cross-cultural pragmatic research: The culture principle
6.2 Intercultural pragmatics: Towards a critical reading
7. Conclusion: The pragmatics of recovering culture
References
Elicitation
References
Ethnography
1. Introduction
2. Ethnography by example
3. Ethnography by contrast
4. Discourse
References
Ethnography of speaking
1. Development and main characteristics
2. Areas of inquiry
3. Issues and debates
References
Fieldwork
References
Firthian linguistics
References
Folk pragmatics
1. Folk linguistics
2. Folk pragmatics
3. Directions for future research
References
Honorifics
1. Definitions
2. Dimensions of variation and comparison
2.1 Linguistic forms
2.2 Sources of honorific expressions
2.3 Honorification roles and participant roles
2.4 Deployment and ideology
3. Pragmatics and semantics
4. Trends in theory and research
References
Wilhelm von Humboldt
1. Life
2. Humboldt’s philosophy of language
3. Language and thought
4. Language and world
5. Language and languages (superior and inferior ones)
6. Language, culture, and creativity
7. Language, dialogue, and pronouns
8. Humboldt and the Idéologues
References
Intercultural communication
1. Background: Language and culture
2. Intercultural communication: The emergence of a field of inquiry
3. The concept of culture
4. Loci of culture-in-communication
5. Methodological (sub)discourses of the field
6. Conclusion
References
Interview
1. Introduction
2. The construction of interviews and questionnaires
3. Research on interviewing
4. Pragmatic underpinnings of interviews
5. Interviewing and institutional authority
6. Conclusion
References
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
1. Biographical sketch
2. The study of culture
3. Fieldwork
4. Theory of language
5. An appraisal
References
Phatic communion
References
Edward Sapir
1. Introduction
2. Biography
3. Sapir on language, culture and personality
3.1 Language
3.1.1 Americanist text tradition
3.1.2 Linguistic form
3.1.3 Form-feeling
3.1.4 Linguistic relativity
3.2 Culture and personality
4. Sapir’s importance to pragmatics
References
Taxonomy
References
Benjamin Lee Whorf
1. Introduction
2. Whorf’s life and work
3. Whorf’s perspective on linguistics
4. The linguistic relativity principle
5. Whorf’s influence
References
Index
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