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This volume is part of the series "Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology", edited for Springer by Alessandro Capone. It is intended for an audience of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postgraduate and advanced researchers. This volume focuses on societal pragmatics.

One of the main concerns of societal pragmatics is the world of language users. We are interested in the investigation of linguistic practices in the context of societal practices ("praxis", to use a term used in the Wittgensteinian and othertraditions).

It is clear that the world of users, including their practices, their culture, and their social aims has to be taken into account and seriously investigated when we deal with the pragmatics of language. It is not enough to discuss principles of language use solely in the guise of abstract theoretical tools. Consequently, the present volume focuses explicitly on the interplay of abstract, theoretical principles and the necessities imposed by societal contexts often requiring a more flexible use of such theoretical tools.

The volume includes articles on pragmemes, politeness and anti-politeness, dialogue, joint utterances, discourse markers, pragmatics and the law, institutional discourse, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and culture, cultural scripts, argumentation theory, connectives and argumentation, language games and psychotherapy, slurs, the analysis of funerary rites, as well as an authoritative chapter by Jacob L. Mey on societal pragmatics.

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Introduction

Capone Alessandro; Mey Jacob L.

1-11

Pragmatics seen through the prism of society

Mey Jacob L.

15-41

Can intercultural pragmatics bring some new insight into pragmatic theories?

43-69

Critical discourse analysis

Waugh Linda; Catalano Theresa; Hong Do Tom; Renigar Paul G

71-135

Pronouns and neo-gricean pragmatics

Davis Wayne A.

137-178

Pragmatic disorders and social functioning

Cummings Louise

179-208

The dialogic principle revisited

Weigand Edda

209-232

Philosophy and psychoanalysis

Cimatti Felice

233-250

The individual and the social path of interpretation

Jaszczolt Kasia; Savva Eleni; Haugh Michael

251-283

Discourse and racism

Teun A van Dijk

285-295

Discourse markers in oral narrative

Norrick Neal R.

297-327

Propositional attitudes and cultural scripts

Gladkova Anna

329-352

Modular, cellular, integral

Mey Jacob L.

353-369

What can pragmatics learn from the law? (on Recanati's cases of modulation, indirect reporting, and cancellability of explicatures)

Capone Alessandro

371-394

A benchmark for politeness

Allan Keith

397-420

Impoliteness strategies

Culpeper Jonathan

421-445

Reconstructing argumentative discourse with the help of speech act conditions

van Eemeren Frans H.; Garssen Bart

447-463

Presupposition as argumentative reasoning

Macagno Fabrizio

465-487

Adpositions, deixis, and anti-deixis

Reed Libert Alan

489-516

Transparency and context in legal communication

Butler Brian E.

517-535

Conversational implicatures in normative texts

Morra Lucia

537-562

Cultural discourse analysis

Carbaugh Donal

565-580

Transcription as second-order entextualization

Haberland Hartmut; Mortensen Janus

581-600

Metadiscursive strategies in dialogue

Ilie Cornelia

601-613

Porque in Spanish oral narratives

Blackwell Sarah E.

615-651

Argumentation and connectives

Moeschler Jacques

653-675

Some reflections on the origin of reason through an outline of the genealogy of language in the light of homonymity, analogy, and metaphor

Fogh Kirkeby Ole

677-700

Joint utterances and the (split-)turn taking puzzle

Gregoromichelaki Eleni; Kempson Ruth

703-743

The metapragmatics of direct utterances

Katriel Tamar

745-766

The pragmatics of embedded exclamatives

Gutiérrez-Rexach Javier; Andueza Patricia

767-790

An assessment of the negative and positive aspects of stereotypes and the derogatory and nonderogatory uses of slurs

Croom Adam M.

791-822

A critical look at the description of speech acts

Wong Jock

825-855

The pragmatics of kéyĭ ("can") in Singapore mandarin

Wong Jock

857-876

Collectivism and coercion

Poole Brian

877-898

Emotional feelings as a form of evidence

Wakefield John C.

899-923

Rituals of death as staged communicative acts and pragmemes

Salmani Nodoushan Mohammad Ali

925-959

Twenty-seven views (plus one) of language socialization

Mey Jacob L.

961-990