Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology Series, Vol. 4

This volume is part of the series ?Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology?, edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers. This volume focuses on societal pragmatics.

One of the main concerns of societal pragmatics is the world of language users. We are interested in the investigation of  linguistic practices in the context of societal practices (?praxis?, to use a term used in the Wittgensteinian and other traditions).

It is clear that the world of users, including their practices, their culture, and their social aims has to be taken into account and seriously investigated when we deal with the pragmatics of language. It is not enough to discuss principles of language use solely in the guise of abstract theoretical tools. Consequently, the present volume focuses explicitly on the interplay of abstract, theoretical principles and the necessities imposed by societal contexts often requiring a more flexible use of such theoretical tools.

The volume includes articles on pragmemes, politeness and anti-politeness,  dialogue, joint utterances, discourse markers, pragmatics and the law, institutional discourse, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and culture, cultural scripts, argumentation theory, connectives  and argumentation, language games and psychotherapy, slurs,  the analysis of funerary rites, as well as an authoritative chapter by Jacob L. Mey on societal pragmatics.

Introduction: Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Socio-cultural Diversity by Alessandro Capone, Jacob L. Mey.- PARTI. 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.- PARTII. 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.- PARTIII. 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.- PARTIV. 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, Embedding and Grounded Belief by Javier Gutiérrez-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.- PARTV. 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

Presents a collection of papers at the intersection of pragmatics, philosophy and social theory

Contains works contributed by some of the most prominent authors in the field

Offers a more complete and unique overview of the area than comparable works, which often take the perspective of politeness and linguistic variation?

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras