Interdisciplinary studies in pragmatics, culture and society

Abstract

This volume is part of the series?Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology?, edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers. This volume focuses on societal pragmatics. One of the main concerns of societal pragmatics is the world of language users. We are interested in the investigation of linguistic practices in the context of societal practices (?praxis?, to use a term used in the Wittgensteinian and other traditions). It is clear that the world of users, including their practices, their culture, and their social aims has to be taken into account and seriously investigated when we deal with the pragmatics of language. It is not enough to discuss principles of language use solely in the guise of abstract theoretical tools. Consequently, the present volume focuses explicitly on the interplay of abstract, theoretical principles and the necessities imposed by societal contexts often requiring a more flexible use of such theoretical tools. The volume includes articles on pragmemes, politeness and anti-politeness, dialogue, joint utterances, discourse markers, pragmatics and the law, institutional discourse, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and culture, cultural scripts, argumentation theory, connectives and argumentation, language games and psychotherapy, slurs, the analysis of funerary rites, as well as an authoritative chapter by Jacob L. Mey on societal pragmatics. Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Sociocultural Diversity; References; Part I ; Theoretical Foundations; Pragmatics Seen Through the Prism of Society; 1 By Way of Introduction: A Bit of Prehistory; 2 The "Pragmatic Turn"; 3 Speech Acts; 4 The Dialectics of Language Use; 5 Society and the Language User: A Societal Pragmatics?; 6 Conclusion: A Societal Pragmatics?; References; Can Intercultural Pragmatics Bring Some New Insight into Pragmatic Theories?; 1 # What is Intercultural Pragmatics? 2 # What Makes Intercultural Pragmatics Different from Pragmatics Proper?3 # The Multilingual Perspective; 4 # The Socio-Cognitive Approach; 5 # Discourse Segment (Rather Than Just Utterance) Perspective; 6 # Pragma-Semantics, Pragma-Dialogue, and Pragma-Discourse; 7 # Some Issues That Intercultural Pragmatics Has Brought Forth; 7.1 # The Interplay of Intention and Attention in SCA; 7.2 # Recipient Design and Salience; 7.3 # Prior Context and Actual Situational Context; 7.4 # Formulaic Language; 8 # Conclusion; References. Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to Pragmatics, Critique, and Trends1 Critical Discourse Analysis; 1.1 General Definition; 1.2 Three Recent Examples of CDA; 2 Common Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis; 2.1 Dialectical-Relational Approach (DRA), Norman Fairclough; 2.2 Socio-Cognitive Approach of Teun van Dijk; 2.3 Discourse-Historical Approach of Ruth Wodak; 2.4 Social Actors Approach, Theo van Leeuwen; 2.5 Dispositive Analysis: Siegfried Jäger and Florentine Maier; 3 Critical Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics. 4 Critique of CDA and the Creation of Critical Discourse Studies4.1 Critique of CDA; 4.2 The Creation of Critical Discourse Studies; 5 Trends in CDA/CDS; 5.1 Positive Discourse Analysis; 5.2 CDA and Multimodality; 5.3 CDA and Cognitive Linguistics; 5.4 CDA and Critical Applied Linguistics; 6 Other Trends; 6.1 CDA and Rhetoric; 6.2 CDA and Education; 6.3 CDA and Anthropology/Ethnography; 6.4 CDA and Sociolinguistics; 6.5 CDA and Culture; 6.6 Feminist CDA: Gender and Discourse; 6.7 CDA and Corpus Studies; 7 New Directions: Social Action for Social Justice; 8 Conclusion; References. Pronouns and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics1 Introduction; 2 Differences Between Reflexive and Nonreflexive Pronouns; 3 Neo-Gricean Pragmatics; 4 The Q-Account of Rule B; 5)#imself, him*#as a Horn Scale; 6 Cancelability; 7 The I-Account of Rule B and the DRP; 8 The I-Account of Rule A; 9 The M-Account of Rule A; 10 Ariel's Functional Principle; 11 Diachronic Accounts; 12 Conclusions; References; Pragmatic Disorders and Social Functioning: A Lifespan Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining Social Functioning; 3 The Social Functions of Pragmatics; 3.1 Establishing Social Relationships.