| Pragmatics Today Contributor(s): Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (Editor), Cap, Piotr (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631543794 ISBN-13: 9783631543795 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $152.57 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Philosophy - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 2005044670 |
| Series: Lodź Studies in Language |
| Physical Information: 504 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The aim of the present volume is to provide the reader with a specimen of the massive and multifaceted research in linguistic pragmatics, as pursued worldwide at the beginning of the 21st century. The book offers a selection of methodological, interpretative and descriptive papers which form a continuum governed by a group of controlling factors: first, the amount of novel theoretical ingredient, second, the degree of interdisciplinarity, and third, the range of application. Accordingly, the volume proceeds from methodological accounts which propose non-standard, often cross-disciplinary reformulations of the existing apparatus of pragmatics, to critical manifestations of the application of broadly accepted and utilized theories. As the collection unfolds, the latter are first applied to the analysis of discourse genres and sub-genres, and later to the study of individual lexicogrammatical phenomena. Throughout the book, language examples draw on an extensive variety of discourses, from political oratory to children's language. |
