Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society (Paperback)

Introduction: Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Socio-cultural Diversity by Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey.- PART I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS. Pragmatics through the Prism of Society by Jacob L. Mey.- How can Intercultural Pragmatics bring in some new Insight into Pragmatics Theories? by Istvan Kecskes.- Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to Pragmatics, Critique and Trends by Linda R. Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Khaled Al Masaeed, Tom Hong Do, and Paul Renigar.- Pronouns and Pragmatics by Wayne A. Davis.- Pragmatic Disorders and Social Functioning: a Lifespan Perspective by Louise Cummings.- The Dialogic Principle Revisited, Speech Acts and Mental States by Edda Weigand.- Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein, on " language-games " and Ethics by Felice Cimatti.- The Individual and the Social Path of Interpretation: The Case of Incomplete Disjunctive Questions by Katarzyna Jaszczolt, E. Savva and M. Haugh.- Discourse and Racism by Teun van Dijk.- Discourse Markers in Oral Narratives by Neal Norrick.- Propositional Attitudes and Cultural Scripts by Anna Gladkova.- Modular, Cellular, Integral: A Pragmatic Elephant? By Jacob L. Mey.- What can Pragmatics Learn from the Law? By Alessandro Capone.- PART II. LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS. A Benchmark for Politeness by Keith Allan.- Impoliteness Strategies by Jonathan Culpeper.- Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse with the Help of Speech Act Conditions by Frans van Eemeren and Bart Garssen.- Presupposition as Argumentative Reasoning by Fabrizio Macagno.- Adpositions, Deixis, and Anti-Deixis by Alan Libert.- Transparency and Context in Legal Communication: Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation by Brian E. Butler.- Conversational Implicatures in Normative Texts by Lucia Morra.- PART III. DISCOURSE. Cultural Analysis of Discourse by Donal Carbaugh.- Transcription as Second-order Entextualizations: The Challenge of Heteroglossia by Hartmut Haberland, Janus Mortensen.- Institutional Metadiscourse by Cornelia Ilie.- "Porque in Spanish Oral Narratives: Semantic porque , (meta) Pragmatic porque or Both?" by Sarah Blackwell.- Argumentation and Connectives by Jacques Moeschler.- The Origin of Reason through an Outline of the Genealogy of Language in the Light of Homonymity, Analogy and Metaphor by Ole Fogh Kirkeby.- PART IV. THE PRAGMATICS OF UTTERANCE. Joint Utterances and the (Split-) Turn Taking Puzzle by Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson.- The Metapragmatics of Direct Utterances by Tamar Katriel.- Exclamatives, E mbedding and G rounded B elief by Javier Gutierrez-Rexach & Patricia Andueza .- An Assessment of the Negative and Positive Aspects of Stereotypes and the Derogatory and Non-Derogatory Uses of Slurs by Adam Croom.- PART V. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. A Critical Look at the Description of Speech Acts by Jock Wong.- The Pragmatics of 'can' in Singapore Mandarin by Jock Wong.- Collectivism and Coercion: The Social Practice of 'sharing' and Distinctive uses of the Verb 'share' in Contemporary Singapore by Brian Poole.- Emotional Feelings as a Form of Evidence: A Case Study of Visceral Evidentiality in Mormon Culture by John Wakefield.- Rituals of Death as Staged Communicative Acts and Pragmemes by Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan.- Twenty-seven Views of Language Socialization by Jacob L. Mey