Böcker i Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]-serien

This volume provides state-of-the-art accounts of a broad range of pragmatic research on fictional language, covering not only written genres, but also drama and telecinematic discourse. Topics range from the participation framework, genre and style to oral features, (im)politeness and invented languages.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations of the conceptual ground of social media, single social media platforms, the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct identities, and speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting.

In addition to 'core' pragmatic and discourse-pragmatic phenomena the chapters cover pragmatically-focused research on types of CMC and pragmatic approaches to characteristic CMC phenomena.

A handbook that provides a comprehensive overview. It contains 4 sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication.

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 includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics and communication studies and provides a multifaceted perspective on both theoretical and applied approaches to the role of language in relational work.

The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. This title covers the central theories as well as concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, such as the widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts.

If pragmatics is the study of meaning-in-context, then cognitive pragmatics can be broadly defined as encompassing the study of the cognitive principles and processes involved in the construal of meaning-in-context.