This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.
This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.
Ante Festum by Jacob L. Mey.- Introduction to the Notion of Pragmeme
by Alessandro Capone.- Part I: Pragmemes: Theoretical Perspectives.-
Deliberate Creativity and Formulaic Language use by Istvan Kecskes.- Aspects
of Anaphora in Chinese and in some Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages,
the syntactic versus pragmatic Language Typology, and Neo-Gricean
Pragmatics by Yan Huang.- Presuppositions as Cancellable Inferences by
Fabrizio Macagno, Alessandro Capone.- The Pragmeme of Insult and some
Allopracts by Keith Allan.- Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of
the Pragmeme by Douglas Robinson.- Pragmatics through the Prism of Society
by Jacob L. mey.- Why we need the Pragmeme, or: Speech Acting and its
Peripeties by Jacob L. Mey.- On the Meaning of Questions by Ferenc Kiefer.-
Narratives in Conversation as Pragmemes by Neal R. Norrick.- Prompting Social
Action as a Higher-order Pragmatic act by Michael Haugh.- Metapragmatics,
Hidden Assumptions, and MoralEconomy by Norman Fairclough.- Terms of Address
in European Languages: A study in Cross-linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics
by Anna Wierzbicka.- Practs and Facts by Jacob Mey.- Pragmemes in Discourse
by Anita Fetzer.- Tongue-tied: Pragmemes and Practs of Silence in Literary
Texts by Dennis Kurzon.- Towards a Pragmatic-semantic continuum. The process
of Naming by Grazia Basile.- Towards a Theory of Everything in Human
Communication by AndraVasilescu.- Austins Speech acts and Pragmemes by
Etsuko Oishi.- Pragmemes in the Sociolinguistic Interview: a case study on
Expanded Polar Answers by Andrea Pizarro Pedraza.- On Pragmemes in Artificial
Languages by Alan Reed Libert.- Part II: Pragmemes and cultural analysis.-
The Ethnopragmatic Representation of Positive and Negative Emotions in Irish
Immigrants Letters by J. Romero-Trillo, N. E. Avila-Ledesma.- Situatedeness
and the Making of Meaning: Pragmatics, Pragmemes, and Modality by Leo Francis
Hoye.- Pragmatic strategies when Reading (Problematic) Translated Texts by
Pedro J. Chamizo-Domķnguez.- The Multimodal Marking of Evidentiality:
Pragmemes of Circumstantial Inference and Mandarin Written news Report by
Vittorio Tantucci.- Expectations in Interaction by Victoria Escandell-Vidal.-
Cultural Pragmatic Schemas, Pragmemes, and Practs: A Cultural Linguistics
Perspective by Farzad Sharifian.- Metapragmatic Pragmemes by Vahid
Parvaresh.- The Culture of Language by Jock Wong.- The memes of Linguistics
by Jock Wong.- Tattooing as Memorial Pragmemes by Luna Bergh.- Part III:
Theories of Language use.- Two Types of Semantic Presuppositions by Nathan
Klinedinst.- Social Cognition and the Pragmatics of Ideology by Javier
Gutiérrez-Rexach and Sara Schatz.- Poor vs. Good Thought Experiments in
Pragmatics: A Case Study by Andrįs Kertész.- What a Personal Pronoun can do
for you: The case of a Southern Dutch Dialect by Jan Nuyts.- A Graded
Strength for Privileged Interactional Interpretations by Merit Sternau,
MiraAriel, Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein.- Implicits as Evolved Persuaders by
Edoardo Lombardo Vallauri.- Inferential Abilities and Pragmatic Deficits in
Subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Paola Pennisi.- On the Tension
between Semantics and Pragmatics by Alessandro Capone.- An Epistemic
Commitment in the very idea of speakers intention by Pietro Perconti.-
Revisiting Metapragmatics: 'what are we talking about? by Claudia Caffi.- A
Model of Categorization and Compositionality (sense determination) in the
light of a Procedural Model of Language (based on selection and the
communicative field) by Dorota Zielinska.- Reflections on Pragmemes: Towards
the Development of Societal Neuropragmatics by Caterina Scianna.- The
Asymmetric Multi-language Model: A Cognitive Pragmatic Pattern to Explain
Codeswitching by Unbalanced Multilinguals by Elvira Assenza.- The
Situatedness of Pragmatic Acts: Explaining a Lamp to a Robot by Kerstin
Fischer.
