Pragmatics of society / edited by Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer.
Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2012.
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| Series: | Handbook of pragmatics ;
v. 5. |
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| Summary: | Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identiti. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110214423 9783110214420 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |