Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics

With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Rong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 27
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Chapter 1 Pragmatics then and now
  • Chapter 2 A motivation model of pragmatics (MMP)
  • Chapter 3 MMP and (im)politeness
  • Chapter 4 MMP and cross-/intercultural variation
  • Chapter 5 MMP and diachronic pragmatics
  • Chapter 6 MMP and discourse
  • Chapter 7 MMP and metaphor
  • Chapter 8 MMP and the non-literal
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Subject index
  • Author index