Fresh Perspectives on Major Issues in Pragmatics

This book showcases new and innovative developments and approaches in pragmatics, spotlighting perspectives from an international range of emerging scholars undertaking cutting-edge research pushing the field into new directions.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1.
Introduction: New Waves in Pragmatics
Istvan Kecskes and Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Chapter 2.
Can cats pick up chainsaws? The interaction of context and plausibility
Stanley Alexander Donahoo
Chapter 3.
Scalar Implicature through the lens of Distributional Linguistics
Maxime Codère Corbeil
Chapter 4.
"We have a big crowd": The different referents of the first-person plural in U.S. presidential candidates' talk on entertainment-political interviews
Eean Grimshaw and Menno H. Reijven
Chapter 5.
Whatever can be meant can be echoed: A comparison of since when questions and echo declarative questions
Angelika Kiss
Chapter 6.
The pragmatics of Japanese quotative constructions: a comparative study between Japanese and Japanese heritage language families
Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon
Chapter 7.
Managing epistemic asymmetry through dialogic resonance in therapy interactions
Rong Lei
Chapter 8.
At-issue or not-at-issue discourse contribution by puisque ('since')? Information structure and discourse structure
Hasmik Jivanyan
Chapter 9.
A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation"
Erika Bellingham, Hanno Beck and Richard Hatcher
Chapter 10.
Pragmatic aspects of translation: a contrastive analysis of translation processes illustrated by inductive-empirical eye-tracking, writing process analysis, and a questionnaire
KyeongHwa Lee

About the author

Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, and is affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY), USA, and Tomsk State University, Russia.

Summary

This book showcases new and innovative developments and approaches in pragmatics, spotlighting perspectives from an international range of emerging scholars undertaking cutting-edge research pushing the field into new directions.

Product details

• Authors: Monika (University of Innsbruck Kirner-Ludwig
• Assisted by: Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Editor), Kirner-Ludwig Monika (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367856366
• ISBN: 978-0-367-85636-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Research on New Waves in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, ELT: teaching theory & methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc