Culture and Language Use
Published on 25. June 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-90-272-0779-1 (ISBN)
Description
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the introduction, and as revealed in the choice of articles, 'culture' is by no means to be seen as standing in opposition to society and cognition; on the contrary, the notion cannot be understood without insight into the intricate interactions of social and cognitive structures and processes. In addition to the topical articles, a number of contributions to this volume is devoted to aspects of methodology. Others highlight the role of eminent scholars who have made the study of cultural dimensions of language use into what it is today.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0779-1 (9789027207791)
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Gunter Senft | Jan-Ola Östman | Jef Verschueren
Culture and Language Use
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06/2009
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Content
1. Preface to the series; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction (by Senft, Gunter); 4. Aisatsu (by Ide, Risako); 5. Anthropological linguistics (by Blount, Ben G.); 6. Franz Boas (by Darnell, Regna); 7. Cognitive anthropology (by Levinson, Stephen C.); 8. Componential analysis (by Goddard, Cliff); 9. Cultural scripts (by Goddard, Cliff); 10. Culture (by Sarangi, Srikant); 11. Elicitation (by Senft, Gunter); 12. Ethnography (by Agar, Michael); 13. Ethnography of speaking (by Fitch, Kristine L.); 14. Fieldwork (by Senft, Gunter); 15. Firthian linguistics (by Ostman, Jan-Ola); 16. Folk Pragmatics (by Niedzielski, Nancy); 17. Honorifics (by Irvine, Judith T.); 18. Wilhelm von Humboldt (by Nerlich, Brigitte); 19. Intercultural communication (by Hinnenkamp, Volker); 20. Interview (by Briggs, Charles L.); 21. Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski (by Senft, Gunter); 22. Phatic communion (by Senft, Gunter); 23. Edward Sapir (by Vermeulen, Jeroen); 24. Taxonomy (by MacLaury, Robert E.); 25. Benjamin Lee Whorf (by Lee, Penny); 26. Index