LINGUIST List 22.230 Fri Jan 14 2011 Books: Applied Ling/General Ling/Pragmatics: Witczak-Plisiecka (Ed) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Chris Humphrey , Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I: Witczak-Plisiecka (Ed) Message 1: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I: Witczak-Plisiecka (Ed) Date: 23-Dec-2010 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I: Witczak-Plisiecka (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend Title: Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I Subtitle: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing                 http://www.c-s-p.org Editor: Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka Hardback: ISBN: 9781443817110 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 54.99 Abstract: Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together twenty essays which critically examine linguistic action and explore ways in which it can be accounted for. The articles presented in this collection are all focused on "doing things with words", but in most cases do not subscribe to speech act theory in the tradition of John L. Austin and John R. Searle. The linking thread through the volume is not a theoretical commitment to one of the speech-act theoretical models, but the authors' perspective on language as a means of action, how linguistic expressions become effective in context and how this effectiveness can be explicated. The papers represent different pragmatic approaches and varied levels of expertise in the research area; among the authors there are eminent linguists and philosophers, well established researchers, and young beginners. The texts include purely theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on research in experimental pragmatics, contrastive and corpus studies, and considerations of the pedagogical implications of pragmatic reflection on the nature of language. Without purporting to cover all relevant topics, this variety reflects the complex character of linguistic pragmatics and integrates studies which cross-cut other research fields.The book is divided in three parts. The seven papers gathered in the first part of the volume, "Speech Action in Theory", are concentrated on theoretical issues pertaining to speech as a type of action with emphasis both on linguistic forms (e.g. fragments) and theoretical commitments and particular theories' explanatory power. Part two, "Case Studies & Experimental Pragmatics", includes reports on research into irony processing in Polish and in English as a second language, intercultural differences in interactions broadcast in the media, power relations in doctor/patient interaction, and metaphors in media discourse at the time of crisis. Part three, "Pragmatics, Grammar, and Language Pedagogy", contains five essays, which explore both more "formal" pragmatics through analyses of grammatical forms and the interface which the analysis of these forms share with context-grounded research, and the practical implications of pragmatic knowledge in language didactics. This collection is supplemented by the essays gathered in volume two, entitled Pragmatics of Semantically Restricted Domains. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             General Linguistics                             Pragmatics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52440 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 14-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.