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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Michael Haugh, University of Queensland
Dániel Z. Kádár, Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University
April 2021
Available
Hardback
9781108844963

    Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team of leading editors and contributors, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of the key concepts, topics, settings and methodologies involved in sociopragmatic research. The chapters are organised in a systematic fashion, and span a wide range of theoretical research on how language communicates multiple meanings in context, how it influences our daily interactions and relationships with others, and how it helps construct our social worlds. Providing insight into a fascinating array of phenomena and novel research directions, the Handbook is not only relevant to experts of pragmatics but to any reader with an interest in language and its use in different contexts, including researchers in sociology, anthropology and communication, and students of applied linguistics and related areas, as well as professional practitioners in communication research.

    • Gives a systematic and accessible overview of sociopragmatics
    • Provides cutting-edge insights and suggests future directions for sociopragmatic research from many of the best-known experts in the field
    • Covers topics that represent the 'applied', socially-relevant aspects of language use

    Product details

    April 2021
    Hardback
    9781108844963
    650 pages
    254 × 182 × 47 mm
    1.55kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction: directions in sociopragmatics Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár and Marina Terkourafi
    • Part I. Fundamentals of Sociopragmatics:
    • 2. Sociopragmatics: roots and definition Jonathan Culpeper
    • 3. Inference and implicature Marina Terkourafi
    • 4. Speaker meaning, commitment and accountability Chi-Hé Elder
    • 5. Social actions Arnulf Deppermann
    • 6. Stance and evaluation Maarit Siromaa and Mirka Rauniomaa
    • 7. Reflexivity and meta-awareness Jef Verschueren
    • 8. Participation and footing Elizabeth Holt and Jim O'Driscoll
    • 9. Conventionalisation and conventions Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House
    • 10. Synchronic and diachronic pragmatic variability Anne Barron
    • 11. Activity types and genres Dawn Archer, Piotr JagodziÅ„ski and Rebecca JagodziÅ„ski
    • 12. Social groups and relational networks Diana Boxer and Florencia Cortés-Conde
    • Part II. Topics and Settings in Sociopragmatics:
    • 13. Face, facework and face-threatening acts Maria Sifianou and Angeliki Tzanne
    • 14. Relationships and relating Robert Arundale
    • 15. Analysing identity Pilar Garcés -Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
    • 16. (Im)politeness and sociopragmatics Jonathan Culpeper and Michael Haugh
    • 17. Affect and emotion Laura Alba-Juez
    • 18. Power Michiel Leezenberg
    • 19. Morality in sociopragmatics Pilar Blitvich and Dániel Z. Kádár
    • 20. Conversational humour Marta Dynel and Valeria Sinkeviciute
    • 21. Gesture and prosody in multimodal communication Lucien Brown and Pilar Prieto
    • 22. Digitally-mediated communication Chiaoqun Xie and Francisco Yus
    • 23. Workplace and institutional discourse Meredith Marra and Shelley Dawson
    • 24. Service encounter discourse J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Rosina Márquez-Reiter
    • 25. Argumentative, political and legal discourse Anita Fetzer and Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
    • 26. The pragmatics of translation Juliane House
    • Part III. Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics:
    • 27. Interpersonal pragmatics Miriam Locher and Sage Lambert Graham
    • 28. Sociocognitive pragmatics Istvan Kecskes
    • 29. Conversation analysis and sociopragmatics Rebecca Clift and Michael Haugh
    • 30. Corpus pragmatics Svenja Adolphs and Yaoyao Chen
    • 31. Variational pragmatics Klaus P. Schneider
    • 32. Historical sociopragmatics Magdalena Leitner and Andreas H. Jucker
    • 33. Emancipatory pragmatics Scott Saft, Sachiko Ide and Kishiko Ueno
    • 34. Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics Troy McConachy and Helen Spencer-Oatey
    • 35. Second-language pragmatics Elly Ifantidou.
      Contributors
    • Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár, Marina Terkourafi, Jonathan Culpeper, Chi-Hé Elder, Arnulf Deppermann, Maarit Siromaa, Mirka Rauniomaa, Laura Alba-Juez, Jef Verschueren, Elizabeth Holt, Jim O'Driscoll, Juliane House, Anne Barron, Dawn Archer, Piotr JagodziÅ„ski, Rebecca JagodziÅ„ski, Diana Boxer, Florencia Cortés-Conde, Maria Sifianou, Angeliki Tzanne, Robert Arundale, Pilar Garcés -Conejos Blitvich, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Michiel Leezenberg, Pilar Blitvich, Marta Dynel, Valeria Sinkeviciute, Lucien Brown, Pilar Prieto, Chiaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus, Meredith Marra, Shelley Dawson, J. César Félix-Brasdefer, Rosina Márquez-Reiter, Anita Fetzer, Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka, Miriam Locher, Sage Lambert Graham, Istvan Kecskes, Rebecca Clift, Svenja Adolphs, Yaoyao Chen, Klaus P. Schneider, Magdalena Leitner, Andreas H. Jucker, Scott Saft, Sachiko Ide, Kishiko Ueno, Troy McConachy, Helen Spencer-Oatey, Elly Ifantidou

    • Editors
    • Michael Haugh , University of Queensland

      Michael Haugh's research interests centre on the role of language in social interaction. He has published widely in pragmatics on topics such as (im)politeness, face, conversational humour and metapragmatics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and co-editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics series, as well a former co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2015-2020).

    • Dániel Z. Kádár , Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages

      Dániel Z. Kádár has a research background in cross-cultural, intercultural and historical pragmatics, as well as linguistic politeness and impoliteness, interactional rituals and Chinese pragmatics. He is Research Chair in both China and Hungary. He is Co-Editor of Contrastive Pragmatics.

    • Marina Terkourafi , Leiden University

      Marina Terkourafi is interested in the interface of language with society and has published widely in all areas of pragmatics, including post-Gricean, sociocultural, historical and experimental pragmatics. She is currently professor and chair of sociolinguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics.