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Pragmatics

An Advanced Resource Book for Students

By Dawn Archer, Karen Aijmer, Anne Wichmann

To Be Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge – 256 pages

Series: Routledge Applied Linguistics

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Description

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics.

Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline.

  • Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers’ techniques of analysis through practical application.
  • Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field.
  • Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses.

Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions.

Pragmatics:

  • Provides a broad view of pragmatics from a cross-cultural and varietal perspective, gathering readings from key names in the discipline, including Geoffrey Leech, Michael McCarthy, Thomas Kohnen, Brigette Nerlich, Joan Manes and Nessa Wolfson, Anna Wierzbicka and Gabriele Kaspar.
  • Covers a wide range of topics, including speech acts, pragmatic markers, implicature, research methods in pragmatics, facework and politeness, and also new areas of research such as prosody
  • Examines the social and cultural contexts in which pragmatics occurs, such as in cross-cultural pragmatics (silence, indirectness, forms of address, cultural scripts) and pragmatics and power (the courtroom, police interaction, political interviews and doctor-patient communication)
  • Uses a wide range of corpora to provide both illustrative examples and exploratory tasks

Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Pragmatics provides an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.

Contents

Section A: Introduction A1. The Origins of Pragmatics A2. Research Methods in Pragmatics A3. The Semantic-Pragmatic Interface A4. Speech Acts: Doing Things With Words A5. Implicature A6. Pragmatics and discourse A7. Pragmatic Markers A8. Pragmatics, Facework and Im/Politeness A9. Pragmatics, Prosody and Gesture A10. Cross-cultural pragmatics A11. Historical Pragmatics A12. Pragmatics and Power Section B: Extension B1. The Origins of Pragmatics B2. Research Methods in Pragmatics B3. The Semantic-Pragmatic Interface B4. Speech Acts: Doing Things With Words B5. Implicature B6. Pragmatics and the Structure of discourse B7. Pragmatic Markers B8. Pragmatics, Facework and (im)politeness B9. Prosody: Intonation B10. Cross-Cultural Communication B11. Historical Pragmatics B12. Analysing Power Section C: Exploration C1. Choosing, Transcribing and Annotating a Dataset C2. Exploring Routinised Speech Acts Using Corpora C3. Testing for Implicatures C4. The Organization of Discourse Structure C5. Pragmatic Markers: Further Explorations C6. Facework and Im/Politeness C7. Prosody and Non-Verbal communication C8. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics C9. Power References