RT list: new volume: Pragmatics, culture and society

Greetings,

I would like to inform you of a forthcoming title, edited by Jacob L. Mey
and myself.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Jacob L. Mey and Alessandro Capone, Pragmatics, linguistics, and
socio-cultural diversity

I. THEORETICAL FUNDATIONS
Istvan Kecskes, How can intercultural pragmatics bring in some new insight
into pragmatics theories?
Edda Weigand, Language as dialogue
Marcelo Dascal, Dialogue and controversies.
Jacob L. Mey, Referring as a situated activity
Katarzyna Jaszczolt, The individual vs. the social path of interpretation
in pragmatics.
Teun van Dijk, Discourse and racism
Neal Norrick, Discourse Markers in Oral Narratives
Cornelia Ilie, Institutional metadiscourse
Anna Gladkova, Propositional attitudes and cultural scripts
Pietro Perconti, An epistemic commitment in the very idea of
“speaker’s intention”
Alessandro Capone, What can pragmatics learn from the law?
Capone, A. On the tension between semantics and pragmatics.

II. LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Jacques Moeschler, Argumentation, connectives and explicatures;
Alan Libert, Fragment of Adpositional Pragmatics: Deixis and Anti-Deixis.
Nathan Klinedienst, Totally hardcore semantic presuppositions;
Lucia Morra, Conversational implicatures in normative texts
Wayne A. Davis, Pronouns and pragmatics
Filippo Domaneschi, The Cooperative Principle and divergent conversational
purposes
Keith Allan, A benchmark for politeness
Frans van Eemeren and Bart Garssen, Reconstructing argumentative discourse
with the help of speech act conditions.

III. DISCOURSE
Donal Carbaugh, Cultural analysis of discourse
H. Haberland, The politics of transcription.
Louise Cummings, pragmatic disorders and social functioning: a lifespan
perspective.

Linda R. Waugh, Theresa Catalano, Khaled Al Masaeed, Tom Hong Do, and Paul
Renigar , Critical Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
Sarah Blackwell, “Porque in Spanish oral narratives: Semantic
porque, (meta) pragmatic porque or both?”
Ole Fogh Kirkeby, The origin of reason through an outline of the genealogy
of language in the light of homonymity, analogy and metaphor.

IV. THE PRAGMATICS OF UTTERANCE
Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Ruth Kempson, Joint utterances and the (Split-)
Turn Taking Puzzle

Tamar Katriel, The metapragmatics of direct utterances
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Exclamatives, embedding and grounded belief
Luvell Anderson, When reporting others backfires

V. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Brian E. Butler, Pragmatics and legal interpretation
Jock Wong, A critical look at the description of speech acts
Jock Wong, The pragmatics of ‘can’ in Singapore Mandarin
Brian Poole, Collectivism and coercion: The social practice of
‘sharing’ and distinctive uses of the verb ‘share’ in contemporary
Singapore

John Wakefield, Culturally-constructed Visceral Evidentiality.
Nodoushan, M. S., Refusal strategies: Persian speaker’s use of refusal
strategies across politeness systems
Nodoushan, A Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Funerary Rites in Iran

References
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About the authors
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