Linguistics of language resources: components of a Linguistic theory
Linguistics of language use: the pragmatic perspective
Pragmatics and interdisciplinary
Meaningful functioning of language
An infinite task?
Summary and further reading
Preview
The pragmatic perspective
Language and language use
Common topics in pragmatics
Deixis
Speech acts
Implicit meaning
The impossibility of complete explicitness
Conventional means for conveying implicit meaning
Strategic avoidance of explicitness
Conversation
What the common topics have in common
The problem of intentionality
Genres of language use
Summary and further reading
Research topics
Key notions
Making choices
Variability negotiability and adaptability
Four angles of investigation
Summary and further reading
Research topics
Aspects of the meaningful functioning of language
The general picture
Ingredients of the communicative context
Language users: utterer and interpreter
The utters many voices
The interpreters many roles
When utter becomes interpreter
The influence of numbers
The mental world
Temporal reference
Spatial reference
Utterer and interpreter in the physical world
Material conditions of speech
Linguistic channel and linguistic context
Linguistic channel
Linguistic context
Contextual cohesion
Intersexuality
Sequencing
The generation of context
Lines if vision
The manipulation of context
Contextualization
Summary and further reading
Research topic
Structure
Language, codes and styles
Utterance-building ingredients
Sound structure
Morphemes and words
Clauses and sentences
Propositions
Suprasentential units
Utterances and utterance clusters
Utterance –building principles
Sentential utterance clusters
Integrated choice-making
Summary and further reading
Research topic
Dynamics
Locating the dynamics of communication
The temporal dimension
Dynamics and context
Dynamics and structure
Activities events and frames of meaning
Strategies of meaning generation
The dynamics of interactive meaning generation
The Budapest opera
The Berkeley coffee chop
From Brussels to Frankfurt
From Bellagio to linate
Summary and further reading
Research topics
Salience
Mind in society
Perception and representation, planning, memory
Perception and representation
Planning
Memory
Degrees of salience
Metapragmatic awareness
Indicators of metapragmatic awareness
Metapragmatics and language ideologies
Self-monitoring
Summary and further reading
Research topic
Topic and trends
Micropragmatic issues
Language resources in need of a pragmatic perspective
The ordering of particles
The problem of performativity
The pragmatics of small-scale interaction
And informal exchange
An institutional event
Summary and further reading
Research topic
Macropragmatic issues
A pragmatic perspective on language resources at the macro-level
Macro-processes in language use
Intercultural and international communication
Rocks-just layin around
Who exploded the land mine under the conference?
Discourse and ideology
The pragmatics of wide societal debates
Summary and further reading
Research topic
The pragmatic landscape
Formative traditions
The problem of delimitation
Precursors and parallels to pragmatics as a theory of linguistic
Adaptability
Interdisciplinary revisited
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
