Fresh Perspectives on Major Issues in Pragmatics

by Monika Kirner-Ludwig (Editor)

Overview

This book showcases new and innovative developments and approaches in pragmatics, spotlighting perspectives from an international range of emerging scholars undertaking cutting-edge research pushing the field in new directions.

The volume begins by taking stock of the most up-to-date developments in pragmatics research, as embodied by the work of a newer generation of pragmaticists. Chapters are organized around key areas of development within pragmatics, including intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, cognitive pragmatics, and new perspectives on referencing, implicating, and inferring, shedding further light on the ways in which pragmatics increasingly interfaces with other linguistic disciplines and on innovative methodologies. The book also places the focus on pragmatics approaches in languages other than than English, further expanding the borders of research.

This book will be of particular interest to scholars in pragmatics interested in staying on top of the latest developments and future directions for the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367683757
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2022
Series:	Routledge Research on New Waves in Pragmatics
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria, and is affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY), USA, and Tomsk State University, Russia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgements xiii

List of Abbreviations xv

1 Introduction: New Waves in Pragmatics Istvan Kecskes Monika Kirner-Ludwig 1

2 Can Cats Pick Up Chainsaws? The Interaction of Context and Plausibility Stanley Alexander Donahoo 29

3 Scalar Implicature through the Lens of Distributional Linguistics Maxime Codère Corbeil 42

4 "We Have a Big Crowd": The Different Referents of the First-Person Plural in U.S. Presidential Candidates' Talk on Entertainment-Political Interviews Eean Grimshaw Menno H. Reijven 61

5 Whatever Can Be Meant Can Be Echoed: A Comparison of Since When Questions and Echo Declarative Questions Angelika Kiss 82

6 The Pragmatics of Japanese Quotative Constructions: A Comparative Study between Japanese and Japanese Heritage Language Families Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon 101

7 Managing Epistemic Asymmetry through Dialogic Resonance in Therapy Interactions Rong Lei 120

8 At-Issue or Not-At-Issue Discourse Contribution by Puisque (F 'Since')? Information Structure and Discourse Structure Hasmik Jivanyan 141

9 A Discourse Model for "Undirected Speculation" Erika Bellingham Hanno Beck Richard Hatcher 163

10 Pragmatic Aspects of Translation: A Contrastive Analysis of Translation Processes Illustrated by Inductive-Empirical Eye-Tracking, Writing Process Analysis, and a Questionnaire Kyeonghwa Lee 181

Index 203