This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use.
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Author(s): Frank Brisard, Sigurd Dhondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 256
Handbook of Pragmatics. 25th Annual Installment
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Editors’ note
Acknowledgments
User’s guide
Introduction
The Handbook format
About the cumulative index
Methods
Working with language dataPractical, technical and scientific considerations
1.Introduction
2.Important concepts
2.1Data and metadata
2.2Legal aspects
2.3Ethical aspects
2.4Data formats
2.5Versioning
2.6Digitization
2.7Archiving
2.8Discoverability
2.9Reproducibility
2.10Citation
3.Summary of recommendations
4.Research history
5.Further reading
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix.Abbreviations/notations/symbols
Traditions
Legitimation Code Theory
1.Historical background
1.1Bourdieu
1.2Bernstein
2.The Legitimation Device
3.The dimensions of LCT
3.1Specialization
3.2Semantics
3.3Autonomy
4.Combining LCT dimensions
4.1Cosmologies
5.Applications of LCT
Acknowledgement
References
Abbreviations, notes and symbols
Handbook A–Z
The chronotope
Introduction
Bakhtin and the chronotope
The chronotope in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Definitions
Chronotopes and identities
Chronotopes, scales and evaluations
Creation and circulation of chronotopes
Chronotopes in the digital world
Discussion
Summary
References
Complaining
1.Introduction
2.The complexity of complaining: Defining features
2.1Complaints and other types of troubles-talk
2.2Linguistic and sequential features
2.3Interpersonal features
3.Types of complaints
3.1Direct or recipient-oriented complaints
3.2Indirect complaints
3.2.1Affiliation as a preferred response
4.Complaining in different contexts
4.1Casual vs institutional talk
4.2Digital/online complaints
5.Future directions
Acknowledgements
References
Globalization
Introduction
Mobility of people
Mobility of texts: Mediated communication
Mobility of texts: Automated communication
Discussion
Future research
References
Power and the role of language
1.Recasting power
2.The productive nature of power: Discourse, knowledge, power
3.The disciplinary reason: Linguistic hierarchisation, norms and linguistic training
4.Governmental reason: The global market, multilingualism and self-discipline
5.The microphysics of power: From linguistic surveillance to securisation
6.The impact of power technologies, and the possibility of resistance
7.Concluding remarks
Funding
Acknowledgements
References
Swearing
1.Introduction
2.Defining swearing
2.1Criteria
3.Methods of investigating swearing
3.1Frequency of swearing
3.1.1Frequency according to word, gender, age
3.2Offensiveness of swearing
3.3The Swearing Paradox
4.Functions of swearing
4.1Delineations, categories, and taxonomies
4.2Interpersonal and pragmatic functions
4.2.1Expressing emotion
4.2.2Negative interpersonal and pragmatic functions
4.2.3Positive interpersonal and pragmatic functions
4.2.3.1Interpersonal and group relations: Affiliation and bonding
4.2.3.2Message effectiveness and speaker effectiveness (including dynamism, credibility or ability to achieve a task)
4.2.3.3Identity management
5.Further inquiry and future directions
References
Teasing
1.Introduction
2.Definitions, related practices and terms
3.Production of teasing
4.Functions
5.Response to teasing
6.The metapragmatics of teasing
7.Teasing and (im)politeness
8.Teasing and identity construction
9.Future directions
Acknowledgements
References
Workplace interaction
1.Introduction
1.1Workplace interaction
1.2Understanding workplace interaction
2.Interaction in the workplace
2.1Speech acts
2.2Conversation analysis
2.3Interactional sociolinguistics
3.Working in groups
3.1Community of practice
3.2Appropriacy in groups
4.The influence of industry
4.1Difference by sector
4.2Gendered industries
5.Working within a society
5.1The impact of orders
5.2Ideological values and the workplace
6.Embracing complexity in workplace interaction
6.1The interplay of contextual constraints on workplace interaction
7.Where next for workplace interaction?
References
Transcription conventions
Youth language
1.Introduction
2.Youth language across traditions
2.1Traditional dialectology and the absence of youth
2.2Variationism and language change
2.3Variationism and social meaning
2.4Complexifying age and the role of young people in dialectology and variationism
2.5Studies of linguistic diversity and sameness among adolescents
3.Digitally mediated language practices and youth
3.1Youth, digital writing and media panics
3.2Online languaging, identity work and global connectivity
3.3The intersections of online and offline language practices
4.Conclusion
References
Cumulative index
