Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use (eBook)

Ante Festum by Jacob L. Mey.- Introduction to the Notion of ‘Pragmeme’ by Alessandro Capone.- Part I: Pragmemes: Theoretical Perspectives.- Deliberate Creativity and Formulaic Language use by Istvan Kecskes.- Aspects of Anaphora in Chinese and in some Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages, the ‘syntactic’ versus ‘pragmatic’ Language Typology, and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics by Yan Huang.- Presuppositions as Cancellable Inferences by Fabrizio Macagno, Alessandro Capone.- The Pragmeme of Insult and some Allopracts by  Keith Allan.- Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of the Pragmeme by  Douglas Robinson.- Pragmatics through the Prism of Society by Jacob L. mey.- Why we need the Pragmeme, or: Speech Acting and its Peripeties by Jacob L. Mey.- On the Meaning of Questions by Ferenc Kiefer.- Narratives in Conversation as Pragmemes by Neal R. Norrick.- Prompting Social Action as a Higher-order Pragmatic act by Michael Haugh.- Metapragmatics, Hidden Assumptions, and Moral Economy by Norman Fairclough.- Terms of Address in European Languages: A study in Cross-linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics by Anna Wierzbicka.- Practs and Facts by Jacob Mey.- Pragmemes in Discourse by Anita Fetzer.- “Tongue-tied”: Pragmemes and Practs of Silence in Literary Texts by Dennis Kurzon.- Towards a Pragmatic-semantic continuum. The process of Naming by Grazia Basile.- Towards a “Theory of Everything” in Human Communication by AndraVasilescu.- Austin’s Speech acts and Pragmemes by Etsuko Oishi.- Pragmemes in the Sociolinguistic Interview: a case study on Expanded Polar Answers by Andrea Pizarro Pedraza.- On Pragmemes in Artificial Languages by Alan Reed Libert.- Part II: Pragmemes and cultural analysis.- The Ethnopragmatic Representation of Positive and Negative Emotions in Irish Immigrants’ Letters by  J. Romero-Trillo, N. E. Avila-Ledesma.- Situatedeness and the Making of Meaning: Pragmatics, Pragmemes, and Modality by Leo Francis Hoye.- Pragmatic strategies when Reading (Problematic) Translated Texts by  Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez.- The Multimodal Marking of Evidentiality: Pragmemes of Circumstantial Inference and Mandarin Written news Report by Vittorio Tantucci.- Expectations in Interaction by Victoria Escandell-Vidal.- Cultural Pragmatic Schemas, Pragmemes, and Practs: A Cultural Linguistics Perspective by Farzad Sharifian.- Metapragmatic Pragmemes by Vahid Parvaresh.- The Culture of Language by Jock Wong.- The ‘memes’ of Linguistics by Jock Wong.- Tattooing as Memorial Pragmemes by Luna Bergh.- Part III: Theories of Language use.- Two Types of Semantic Presuppositions by Nathan Klinedinst.- Social Cognition and the Pragmatics of Ideology by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach and Sara Schatz.- Poor vs. Good Thought Experiments in Pragmatics: A Case Study by András Kertész.- What a Personal Pronoun can do for you: The case of a Southern Dutch Dialect by Jan Nuyts.- A Graded Strength for Privileged Interactional Interpretations by Merit Sternau, Mira Ariel, Rachel Giora and Ofer Fein.- Implicits as Evolved Persuaders by Edoardo Lombardo Vallauri.-  Inferential Abilities and Pragmatic Deficits in Subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Paola Pennisi.- On the Tension between Semantics and Pragmatics by Alessandro Capone.- An Epistemic Commitment in the very idea of “speaker’s intention” by Pietro Perconti.- Revisiting Metapragmatics: 'what are we talking about? by Claudia Caffi.- A Model of Categorization and Compositionality (sense determination) in the light of a Procedural Model of Language (based on selection and the communicative field) by Dorota Zielinska.- Reflections on Pragmemes: Towards the Development of Societal Neuropragmatics by Caterina Scianna.- The Asymmetric Multi-language Model: A Cognitive Pragmatic Pattern to Explain Codeswitching by Unbalanced Multilinguals by Elvira Assenza.- The Situatedness of Pragmatic Acts: Explaining a Lamp to a Robot by Kerstin Fischer