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- ISBN 9783110214413
- Weight: 1331g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 2011
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Gisle Andersen, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NNH), Norway; Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenborg, Sweden.
