The discourse of indirectness cues, voices and functions
"Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from...
| Другие авторы: | , , |
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
| Публикация: |
Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2020.
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| Серии: | Pragmatics & Beyond new series,
volume 316 |
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| Online-ссылка: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Итог: | "Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from textual, contextual and intertextual meaning units. Emphasis is placed on the way in which indirectness serves the representation of diverse voices in the text, and this is examined through three main prisms: (1) the inferential view focuses on textual and contextual cues from which pragmatic indirect meanings might be inferred; (2) the dialogic-intertextual view focuses on dialogic and intertextual cues according to which different voices (social, ideological, literary etc.) are identified in the text; and (3) the functional view focuses on the pragmatic-rhetorical functions fulfilled by indirectness of both kinds"-- |
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| Объем: | 1 online resource. |
| Библиография: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027260567 9789027260567 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |