Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Deliberate Creativity and Formulaic Language Use....Pages 3-20
Aspects of Anaphora in Chinese and in Some Germanic, Romance, and Slavic Languages, the ‘Syntactic’ Versus ‘Pragmatic’ Language Typology, and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics....Pages 21-43
Presuppositions as Cancellable Inferences....Pages 45-68
The Pragmeme of Insult and Some Allopracts....Pages 69-84
Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of the Pragmeme....Pages 85-104
Pragmatics Seen Through the Prism of Society....Pages 105-132
Why We Need the Pragmeme, or: Speech Acting and Its Peripeties....Pages 133-140
On the Meaning of Questions....Pages 141-148
Narratives in Conversation as Pragmemes....Pages 149-166
Prompting Social Action as a Higher-Order Pragmatic Act....Pages 167-190
Metapragmatics, Hidden Assumptions, and Moral Economy....Pages 191-208
Terms of Address in European Languages: A Study in Cross-Linguistic Semantics and Pragmatics....Pages 209-238
Practs and Facts....Pages 239-248
Pragmemes in Discourse....Pages 249-264
“TONGUE-TIED”: Pragmemes and Practs of Silence in Literary Texts....Pages 265-285
Towards a Pragmatic-Semantic Continuum. The Process of Naming....Pages 287-303
Towards a “Theory of Everything” in Human Communication....Pages 305-333
Austin’s Speech Acts and Mey’s Pragmemes....Pages 335-350
Pragmemes in the Sociolinguistic Interview: A Case Study on Expanded Polar Answers....Pages 351-374
On Pragmemes in Artificial Languages....Pages 375-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
The Ethnopragmatic Representation of Positive and Negative Emotions in Irish Immigrants’ Letters....Pages 393-420
Situatedeness and the Making of Meaning: Pragmatics, Pragmemes, and Modality. An Essay....Pages 421-454
Pragmatic Strategies When Reading (Problematic) Translated Texts....Pages 455-476
The Multimodal Marking of Evidentiality: Pragmemes of Circumstantial Inference and Mandarin Written News Report....Pages 477-491
Expectations in Interaction....Pages 493-503
Cultural Pragmatic Schemas, Pragmemes, and Practs: A Cultural Linguistics Perspective....Pages 505-519
Metapragmatic Pragmemes....Pages 521-535
The Culture of Language....Pages 537-566
The ‘emes’ of Linguistics....Pages 567-583
Tattooing as Memorial Pragmemes....Pages 585-597
Front Matter....Pages 599-599
Two Types of Semantic Presuppositions....Pages 601-624
Social Cognition and the Pragmatics of Ideology....Pages 625-642
Poor vs. Good Thought Experiments in Pragmatics: A Case Study....Pages 643-677
What a Personal Pronoun Can Do for You: The Case of a Southern Dutch Dialect....Pages 679-702
A Graded Strength for Privileged Interactional Interpretations....Pages 703-723
Implicits as Evolved Persuaders....Pages 725-748
Inferential Abilities and Pragmatic Deficits in Subjects with Autism Spectrum Disorders....Pages 749-768
On the Tension Between Semantics and Pragmatics....Pages 769-790
An Epistemic Commitment in the Very Idea of “Speaker’s Intention”....Pages 791-798
Revisiting Metapragmatics: ‘What Are We Talking About?’....Pages 799-821
Front Matter....Pages 599-599
A Model of Categorization and Compositionality (Sense Determination) in the Light of a Procedural Model of Language (Based on Selection and the Communicative Field)....Pages 823-842
Reflections on Pragmemes: Towards the Development of Societal Neuropragmatics....Pages 843-859
The Asymmetric Multi-language Model: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Pattern to Explain Code-Switching by Unbalanced Multilinguals....Pages 861-899
The Situatedness of Pragmatic Acts: Explaining a Lamp to a Robot....Pages 901-910