Contrastive Pragmatics

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-2260-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aijmer, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1–4
Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviews
Annette Becker

5–22
The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse
Agnès Celle

23–36
Intersubjective positioning in French and English: A contrastive analysis of ‘ça dépend’ and ‘it depends’
Bart Defrancq and Bernard De Clerck

37–72
Challenges in contrast: A function-to-form approach
Anita Fetzer

73–96
Interruption in advanced learner French: Issues of pragmatic discrimination
Marie-Noëlle Guillot

97–121
Closeness and distance: The changing relationship to the audience in the American TV news show “CBS Evening News” and the Swiss “Tagesschau”
Martin Luginbühl

123–142
The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar
Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman

143–180
Index

181–182