Wolfram Bublitz

Christian Hoffmann

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research.

Pragmatics of Social Media

This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative, reconstructive mode of description, Bublitz focusses on two main phenomena: (a) discourse topic and topical actions (like INTRODUCING and CHANGING A TOPIC or DIGRESSING from it), (b) hearer signals and reactive speaker contributions. The interlocutors' topic-centered and topic-organizing behaviour is shown to be predominantly and systematically oriented towards supporting their fellow-speakers to the extent that it seems to be justified to regard large parts of these conversations as having a monological character'.

Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation

Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations

Monika Kirner-Ludwig

Jenny Arendholz

In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of quoting as a meta-communicative act in various forms of old (printed) and new (electronically mediated) communication, setting it apart from (seemingly) related acts like repeating or referring. Recent interest in the formal (copy-paste quoting) and ethical (quoting as plagiarizing) aspects of quoting has been gaining considerable momentum in linguistics (and other disciplines), predominantly fuelled by enormous technological progress and the impact on both the procedure of quoting itself and its appraisal in public discourse. Embracing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, the authors pay special tribute to the inherent complementarity of both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. With contributions pinpointing the formal and functional evolution of quoting and tracing trends in linguistic variation, this volume brings together interpersonal pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical, cognitive and text linguistics as well as cultural studies. In this way, the present title provides a more comprehensive and integral understanding of the nature of quoting.

The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then

Winfried Boeder

Heinz Vater

Manfred von Roncador

Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universität Oldenburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte natürlicher Sprachen berücksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschließlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfältiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknüpft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages but he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contributions are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of Winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Festschrift für Winfried Boeder zum 65. Geburtstag

Philologie, Typologie und Sprachstruktur

Discourse Topics and Topical Actions, Participant Roles and "recipient Action" in a Particular Type of Everyday Conversation

Supportive Fellow-speakers and Cooperative Conversations

Andreas H. Jucker

Klaus P. Schneider

Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and comprehensive surveys of the entire breadth of methods and methodologies. Part 1 covers introspectional, philosophical and cognitive pragmatics. Part 2 is devoted to experimental pragmatics, including discourse completion and dialogue construction tasks, role-plays and other production and comprehension tasks. Part 3 reviews observational pragmatics including ethnographic and discourse analytic methods, and part 4, finally, is devoted to corpus pragmatics including accounts of corpus compilation, annotation and data retrieval specific to pragmatic research. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art account of the precise workings of one particular method, its applications in the relevant research literature as well as a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and the type of pragmatic research questions for which it is most suitable.

Methods in Pragmatics

Untersuchungen zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik der deutschen Modalpartikeln und Vergewisserungsfragen und ihrer englischen Entsprechungen

Ausdrucksweisen der Sprechereinstellung im Deutschen und Englischen

Wolfram Bublitz

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