Pragmatics of Society

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Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research. The handbook gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use the volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics includes a helpful name and subject index Preface to the handbook series Introducing the pragmatics of society I. Social, regional and situational factors 1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction 2. Gender identities and discourse 3. Regional pragmatic variation 4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features 5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy 6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction 7. Prosody and pragmatic effects III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude 8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective 9. Interjections 10. Vagueness and hedging IV. Different interpretational levels – speech acts, politeness and beyond 11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization 12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments 13. Politeness and impoliteness 14. Honorifics and address terms V. Sequential patterns and activities 15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk 16. Turn-taking in conversation 17. Pauses and hesitations VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture 18. Cultural variation in language use 19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context 20. Global and intercultural communication 21. Critical discourse analysis: overview, challenges, and perspectives 22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history About the authors Author index Subject index