Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment

Handbook of Pragmatics. 25th Annual Installment
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Editors’ note
	Acknowledgments
User’s guide
	Introduction
	The Handbook format
	About the cumulative index
Methods
Working with language dataPractical, technical and scientific considerations
	1.Introduction
	2.Important concepts
		2.1Data and metadata
		2.2Legal aspects
		2.3Ethical aspects
		2.4Data formats
		2.5Versioning
		2.6Digitization
		2.7Archiving
		2.8Discoverability
		2.9Reproducibility
		2.10Citation
	3.Summary of recommendations
	4.Research history
	5.Further reading
	Acknowledgments
	References
	Appendix.Abbreviations/notations/symbols
Traditions
Legitimation Code Theory
	1.Historical background
		1.1Bourdieu
		1.2Bernstein
	2.The Legitimation Device
	3.The dimensions of LCT
		3.1Specialization
		3.2Semantics
		3.3Autonomy
	4.Combining LCT dimensions
		4.1Cosmologies
	5.Applications of LCT
	Acknowledgement
	References
	Abbreviations, notes and symbols
Handbook A–Z
The chronotope
	Introduction
	Bakhtin and the chronotope
	The chronotope in linguistics and linguistic anthropology: Definitions
	Chronotopes and identities
	Chronotopes, scales and evaluations
	Creation and circulation of chronotopes
	Chronotopes in the digital world
	Discussion
	Summary
	References
Complaining
	1.Introduction
	2.The complexity of complaining: Defining features
		2.1Complaints and other types of troubles-talk
		2.2Linguistic and sequential features
		2.3Interpersonal features
	3.Types of complaints
		3.1Direct or recipient-oriented complaints
		3.2Indirect complaints
			3.2.1Affiliation as a preferred response
	4.Complaining in different contexts
		4.1Casual vs institutional talk
		4.2Digital/online complaints
	5.Future directions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Globalization
	Introduction
	Mobility of people
	Mobility of texts: Mediated communication
	Mobility of texts: Automated communication
	Discussion
	Future research
	References
Power and the role of language
	1.Recasting power
	2.The productive nature of power: Discourse, knowledge, power
	3.The disciplinary reason: Linguistic hierarchisation, norms and linguistic training
	4.Governmental reason: The global market, multilingualism and self-discipline
	5.The microphysics of power: From linguistic surveillance to securisation
	6.The impact of power technologies, and the possibility of resistance
	7.Concluding remarks
	Funding
	Acknowledgements
	References
Swearing
	1.Introduction
	2.Defining swearing
		2.1Criteria
	3.Methods of investigating swearing
		3.1Frequency of swearing
			3.1.1Frequency according to word, gender, age
		3.2Offensiveness of swearing
		3.3The Swearing Paradox
	4.Functions of swearing
		4.1Delineations, categories, and taxonomies
		4.2Interpersonal and pragmatic functions
			4.2.1Expressing emotion
			4.2.2Negative interpersonal and pragmatic functions
			4.2.3Positive interpersonal and pragmatic functions
				4.2.3.1Interpersonal and group relations: Affiliation and bonding
				4.2.3.2Message effectiveness and speaker effectiveness (including dynamism, credibility or ability to achieve a task)
				4.2.3.3Identity management
	5.Further inquiry and future directions
	References
Teasing
	1.Introduction
	2.Definitions, related practices and terms
	3.Production of teasing
	4.Functions
	5.Response to teasing
	6.The metapragmatics of teasing
	7.Teasing and (im)politeness
	8.Teasing and identity construction
	9.Future directions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Workplace interaction
	1.Introduction
		1.1Workplace interaction
		1.2Understanding workplace interaction
	2.Interaction in the workplace
		2.1Speech acts
		2.2Conversation analysis
		2.3Interactional sociolinguistics
	3.Working in groups
		3.1Community of practice
		3.2Appropriacy in groups
	4.The influence of industry
		4.1Difference by sector
		4.2Gendered industries
	5.Working within a society
		5.1The impact of orders
		5.2Ideological values and the workplace
	6.Embracing complexity in workplace interaction
		6.1The interplay of contextual constraints on workplace interaction
	7.Where next for workplace interaction?
	References
	Transcription conventions
Youth language
	1.Introduction
	2.Youth language across traditions
		2.1Traditional dialectology and the absence of youth
		2.2Variationism and language change
		2.3Variationism and social meaning
		2.4Complexifying age and the role of young people in dialectology and variationism
		2.5Studies of linguistic diversity and sameness among adolescents
	3.Digitally mediated language practices and youth
		3.1Youth, digital writing and media panics
		3.2Online languaging, identity work and global connectivity
		3.3The intersections of online and offline language practices
	4.Conclusion
	References
Cumulative index