Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification - Register and Social Meaning

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, particularly from Japanese and Thai, and explores a wide range of related philosophical issues.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Honorification as expressive


• 3: A theory of register for honorification


• 4: Utterance honorifics


• 5: Argument honorifics


• 6: Role honorifics


• 7: Pronouns and honorification


• 8: Honorification as social meaning

About the author

Elin McCready is Professor of Linguistics at Aoyama Gakuin University, where she also heads the Singularity Research Institute. Her main area of research is formal semantics and pragmatics, with secondary interests in epistemology, game theory, and feminist philosophy. Her work has been published in journals including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Journal of Pragmatics. She is the author of Reliability in Pragmatics (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond (with Katsuhiko Yabushita and Kei Yoshimoto; Springer, 2014) and Epistemology for the Rest of the World (with Stephen Stich and Masaharu Mizumoto; OUP, 2018).

Summary

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, particularly from Japanese and Thai, and explores a wide range of related philosophical issues.

Product details

• Authors: Elin McCready, Elin (Professor of Linguistics Mccready
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198821366
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882136-6
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics; Oxford Studies in Semantics an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics