Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics /

Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics / / Rong Chen.

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 unwarranted and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Chen, Rong,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 27
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 333 p.)
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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

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