Co-Constructing Intercultural Space

Ulrike Schröder

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 28
• Current debates on intercultural communication often align with critical approaches. However, in the fields of cultural linguistics and intercultural ... Lees meer

Explorations in Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 1
• The papers in this volume reflect current trends in international research in pragmatics over recent years. The unique feature of the book is that the... Lees meer

Why Language?

Jacques Moeschler

• Paperback | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 25
• There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communicati... Lees meer

Why Language?

Jacques Moeschler

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 25
• There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communicati... Lees meer

Pragmatics at Its Interfaces

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 17
• All of the papers included in this volume offer some novel and/or updated perspective on issues of central importance in pragmatics, suggesting origin... Lees meer

Im/Politeness Implicatures

Michael Haugh

• Paperback | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 11
• This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature... Lees meer

Im/Politeness Implicatures

Michael Haugh

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 11
• This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature... Lees meer

The Pragmatic Turn in Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 18
• In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far e... Lees meer

Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 4
• This book presents current research that discusses some of the major issues in pragmatics from new perspectives, and directs attention to aspects of f... Lees meer

Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Jörg Meibauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 14
• While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the sema... Lees meer

Pragmatic Competence

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 5
• In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamen... Lees meer

Culture, Society, and Cognition

David B Kronenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 3
• This theoretically motivated approach to pragmatics (vs. semantics) produces a radically new view of culture and its role vis-a-vis society. Understan... Lees meer

Cognitive Pragmatics

Marco Mazzone

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 20
• Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevan... Lees meer

The Pragmatics of Catalan

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 10
• This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan la... Lees meer

Non-Lexical Pragmatics

Jacques Moeschler

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 23
• This book presents both general issues in pragmatic theories and specific arguments for an inferential approach to pragmatics. At the present time, pr... Lees meer

Cognitive Pragmatics

Marco Mazzone

• Paperback | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 20
• Cognitive pragmatics is a mature field of research, characterized by robust theories and a growing amount of experimental work. In particular, Relevan... Lees meer

Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction

• Paperback | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 26
• In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been cha... Lees meer

Intentions in Comedy Discourse

Ibukun Filani

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 32
• Intentions in Comedy Discourse presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cognitive ... Lees meer

Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 6
• This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several cont... Lees meer

Direct Belief

Jonathan Berg

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 13
• Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer ... Lees meer

Negative Inversion, Social Meaning, and Gricean Implicature

William Salmon

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 24
• Relying on a wealth of new data, this book argues that long-standing puzzles of Negative Inversion (NI) syntax are not puzzles at all when viewed thro... Lees meer

Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics

Rong Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 27
• With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen ... Lees meer

Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 16
• This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encompass... Lees meer

Beyond Words

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouton Pragmatics [msp] | nr. 15
• In pragmatics, it is widely accepted that the overall meaning of an utterance performed as part of a verbal interchange is basically underdetermined b... Lees meer