The Pragmatics of Catalan / / ed. by Lluís Payrató, Josep Maria Cots.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bassols, Margarida,; Cots, Josep M.,; Cots, Josep Maria,; Cuenca, Maria-Josep,; Curell, Hortènsia,; Espinal, M. Teresa,; González, Montserrat,; Lloberes, Marina,; Nogué, Neus,; Nussbaum, Luci,; Payrató, Lluís,; Prieto, Pilar,; Pujolar, Joan,; Rigau, Gemma,; Salvador, Vicent,; Torrent, Aina,
• HerausgeberIn: Cots, Josep Maria,; Payrató, Lluís,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 p.)

This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan language. The volume constitutes a significant contribution to the field of intercultural pragmatics and also to a broad range of grammatical and cognit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Catalan pragmatics and the pragmatics of Catalan
• Part I. Pragmatics, grammar, and semantics
• Prosody and pragmatics
• Pragmatic particles at the syntax-cognition interface
• Modal particles in Catalan
• Person deixis in Catalan
• Indirect evidence in Catalan: A case study
• Catalan interjections
• Part II. Pragmatics, discourse, sociocultural aspects, and language contact
• Pragmatic coherence as a multimodal feature: Illustrative cospeech gestures, events, and states
• Here, many stories begin on a paper napkin. Argumentation in Catalan discourse
• Politeness and cultural styles of speaking in Catalan
• Metaphor and style in Catalan
• Doing learning languages in a multilingual context: Pragmatic aspects of classroom discourse in Catalonia
• Catalan-Spanish language contact in social interaction
• Index