Date: 06-Jul-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Context and Contexts: Fetzer, Oishi (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Context and Contexts
Subtitle: Parts meet whole?
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 209
Published: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Anita Fetzer
Editor: Etsuko Oishi
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286635 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286635 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256133 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256133 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256133 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Abstract:
This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how both are influenced by context, how context influences speech acts and meaning, how context is imported into the discourse, and how context is entextualized in discourse. The papers cover institutional and non-institutional contexts, the language of Greek laws, political discourse, confrontational media discourse and task-oriented face-to-face and back-to-back interactions. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, adaptive action, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
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