: Istvan Kecskes, Laurence R. Horn
: Explorations in Pragmatics Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultural Aspects
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110198843
: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]ISSN
: 1
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
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This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics.  Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psychology, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and communication.  Recent theoretical and empirical advances in these fields has motivated scholars to reexamine and revise some of the central tenets of pragmatics, and it is this reexamination which lies at the heart of the papers in this volume.



Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany, USA;Laurence R. Horn , Yale University, New Haven, USA.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Introduction7
What is language: Some preliminary remarks13
Toward a Fregean pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung45
The role of explicature in communication and in intercultural communication79
Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization101
“A good Arab is not a dead Arab – a racist incitement”: On the accessibility of negated concepts135
Developing pragmatics interculturally171
Formulaic language in English Lingua Franca197
Language evolution, pragmatic inference, and the use of English as a lingua franca225
On non-reductionist intercultural pragmatics and methodological procedure263
From downgrading to (over) intensifying: A pragmatic study in English and French293
Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of cooperation319
Backmatter351