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Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use (Perspectives in Pragmatics #9) (Hardcover)

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By Keith Allan (Editor), Alessandro Capone (Editor), Istvan Kecskes (Editor)
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This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.

Product Details
ISBN: 9783319434902
ISBN-10: 331943490X
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: January 18th, 2017
Pages: 910
Language: English
Series: Perspectives in Pragmatics