
Pragmaticizing Understanding
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This volume pays homage to Jef Verschueren on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It celebrates him for his long-standing dedication as Secretary General of IPrA and for his scholarly contributions to the field. We owe to Jef Verschueren the insight that the processes through which language users (do or do not) achieve understanding among each other in communication can only be fully comprehended if approached from a pragmatic perspective, i.e. if understanding is pragmaticized.
The chapters in this book are written by scholars who, like Jef Verschueren, have played a key role in the genesis and development of the field, and who still actively contribute to its advancement today. Each author looks back, evaluates the present, and takes on new challenges.
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- Pragmaticizing Understanding
- Title page
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- Table of contents
- On how to pragmaticize understanding
- 1. An understanding of pragmatics
- 2. The pragmatics of understanding
- 3. The role of tents, breakfasts, and so much more
- 4. Lives in pragmatics
- 5. Going beyond a good start
- References
- Does the autonomy of linguistics rest on the autonomy of syntax?
- 1. Included in language, excluded from linguistics
- 2. The normativity of indexicality and the problem of a metapragmatic
- 3. Can "speech acts" mediate between morphosyntax and indexical variability?
- 4. The semiotic vs. historical location of a concept of grammatical structure
- References
- Classifying illocutionary acts, or, a tale of Theory and Praxis
- 1. From the Fact-Value dichotomy to illocutionary acts classification
- 2. Elaborating upon illocutionary types
- 3. The fate of illocution in the development of speech act theory
- 4. What I achieved
- 5. What I did not achieve
- 6. Provisional conclusions
- References
- Spatial indexicalities and spatial pragmatics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The traditional view
- 3. A reappraisal: The field of spatial indexicalities
- 4. Spatial indexicalities at work: Two examples
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Pragmatics as a facilitator for child syntax development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Structure of interaction
- 3. Studies relating syntax to pragmatics
- 4. Study of pragmatics of temporal clauses
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Pragmatics, linguistic competence, and Conversation Analysis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Treating few words to mean more
- 3. Treating the talk as senseless
- 4. Incorporating the talk by treating it as relevant
- 5. Concluding comments
- Transcription symbols
- References
- Pragmatics and dialogue phenomena
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pragmatics: Dialogue or prose?
- 3. Dialogue technology: Data or rules?
- 4. Dialogue modelling: Tasks or chat?
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Roots of the wakimae aspect of linguistic politeness
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Modality in Japanese
- 3. Japanese sense of self
- 4. The choice of modal forms: The case of polite forms
- 5. Why the Japanese speak the way they do
- 6. Concluding remarks
- References
- "Laura! Laura! Wake up": The politics and pragmatics of intertextuality and appropriation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Appropriation and intertextuality
- 3. Intertextuality in US political rhetoric: The Gettysburg Address and the I Have A Dream speech
- 4. Failed intertextuality: An example
- 5. Two political cartoons
- References
- Knowledge, discourse and domination
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Knowledge
- 3. Discourse and knowledge
- 4. Knowledge control by discourse control
- 5. An example: Tony Blair's knowledge in his Iraq speech in parliament
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- The public face of language: Why spelling matters
- 1. Spelling in popular culture
- 2. The visual presentation of written language
- 3. The German spelling reform as an example of the public face of a language
- 4. The public debate on spelling reform
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- The compleat angle on pragmatics: A personal note
- References
- Tabula Gratulatoria
- Index
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