Pragmatics and its Interfaces
Editors
This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing and cross-pollination between disciplines is natural, as well as necessary, but at times it seems important to take a pause and reflect on and problematize the role of pragmatics at these interfaces. In an age when disciplinary boundaries are being blurred, we need to investigate the relationship and interplay between pragmatics and related or complementary fields of enquiry with the goal of broadening and deepening our understanding of the contributions and boundaries of pragmatics as such. Here in twelve original contributions, internationally recognized authorities explore the current state and future trends in Pragmatics vis-à-vis adjacent disciplines.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 294] 2018. vi, 313 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: Pragmatics and its interfacesNeal R. Norrick and Cornelia Ilie | pp. 1–10
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Sociolinguistics vs pragmatics: Where does the boundary lie?Janet Holmes | pp. 11–32
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Discourse pragmatics: Communicative action meets discourse analysisAnita Fetzer | pp. 33–57
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The interface between pragmatics and conversation analysisPaul Drew | pp. 59–84
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Pragmatics vs rhetoric: Political discourse at the pragmatics-rhetoric interfaceCornelia Ilie | pp. 85–119
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Narrative studies versus pragmatics (of narrative)Neal R. Norrick | pp. 121–142
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Translation studies and pragmaticsJuliane House | pp. 143–162
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The interface between pragmatics and gesture studiesGerardine M. Pereira | pp. 163–184
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Pragmatics and anthropology: The Trobriand Islanders’ ways of speakingGunter Senft | pp. 185–211
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Integrative pragmatics and (im)politeness theoryMichael Haugh and Jonathan Culpeper | pp. 213–239
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Corpus linguistics and pragmaticsChristoph Rühlemann and Brian Clancy | pp. 241–266
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The interface between pragmatics and internet-mediated communication: Applications, extensions and adjustmentsFrancisco Yus | pp. 267–290
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Pragmatics, humor studies, and the study of interactionNancy D. Bell | pp. 291–309
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“The work achieves its expressed target, to provide a ‘state of the art overview’ of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of pragmatics in relation to most of the areas of study that it interfaces with. It does this in a ‘bidirectional’ approach, from pragmatics to interface and from interface to pragmatics; in this way, the work manages to give every area its proper dues. Highly recommended for a fascinating overview of the current pragmatic spectrum.”
Jacob L. Mey, University of Southern Denmark
“This sparking collection of essays shows that pragmatics is in rude health, and making happy links with its scholarly neighbours (some of whom would once have been thought to be too distant for any useful contact). An invaluable map of where pragmatics is now, and where it might and should be going.”
Charles Antaki, Loughborough University, UK
“Ilie and Norrick have gifted the field of pragmatics with this volume, which provides an excellent overview of the various components of the field. For those who have grappled with how to define “pragmatics”, the answer lies in these very pages.”
Diana Boxer, University of Florida, USA
“This is an immensely useful and timely book. As we move towards greater interdisciplinarity in our research and as boundaries become fuzzy, students and academics alike wonder about the distinctions and overlaps between neighbouring areas. To have a book that explores this in detail with respect to pragmatics is a hugely valuable resource that I shall personally refer to time and again and I’m sure others will too.”
Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UK
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Pragmatics and its interfaces effectively and vibrantly illustrates the relevance of pragmatics to a vast array of interrelated fields. Because of the wealth and range of data that it draws upon as well as its strong theoretical orientation, the book would serve well as a core reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course as the volume has the potential to inspire interdisciplinary studies that help to both ground and enrich the study of pragmatics and to connect pragmatics with a range of related fields”
Juan José Bueno Holle, Independent Researcher, on Linguist List 30.2211 (28 May 2019)
“This volume provides a strong impetus for reassessing both the boundaries and synergies between pragmatics and other disciplines. In this way, it not only offers insights into the current state of the art, but also suggests promising directions for future cross-disciplinary linguistic research.”
Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, University of Pisa, in Prafmatics and Society 10:3 (2019)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics