Fetzer / Oishi Context and Contexts

Parts meet whole?
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8663-5
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 209, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how both are influenced by context, how context influences speech acts and meaning, how context is imported into the discourse, and how context is entextualized in discourse. The papers cover institutional and non-institutional contexts, the language of Greek laws, political discourse, confrontational media discourse and task-oriented face-to-face and back-to-back interactions. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, adaptive action, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fetzer, Anita

Oishi, Etsuko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

vii
Introduction
Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi

1–8
Situated meaning in context

Why a mother’s rule is not a law: The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws
Amalia Moser and Eleni Panaretou

11–40
Fighting words: Hybrid discourse and discourse processes
Lawrence N. Berlin

41–66
Context and talk in confrontational discourses
Luisa Granato and Alejandro Parini

67–90
Deixis in context

This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad
Konstanze Jungbluth

93–114
“Here is the difference, here is the passion, here is the chance to be part of great change”: Strategic context importation in political discourse
Anita Fetzer

115–146
Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish
Umit Deniz Turan and Deniz Zeyrek

147–168
Communicative action in context

Speech acts in context
Jacob L. Mey

171–180
How are speech acts situated in context?
Etsuko Oishi

181–204
Context: An adaptive perspective
Thanh Nyan

205–234
Subject index

235–238
Author index

239