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Context and Appropriateness
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 158.00This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness... more...
Recontextualizing Context
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 147.00In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit. This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic context, social context and sociocultural context and... more...
The Pragmatics of Political Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 135.00Using political discourses produced from below, i.e. by the common people in Cameroon rather than by prominent politicians, this chapter illustrates how the social act of thanking is realised in the written political discourse sub-genre called ‘motions of support’. These are letters read on radio or TV or published in newspapers, addressed... more...
Lexical Markers of Common Grounds, Volume 3
BRILL 2006; US$ 104.00A new approach to common ground from the perspective of lexical markers more...
Political Discourse in the Media
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French,... more...
Rethinking Sequentiality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 173.00This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of sequentiality by integrating further constitutive components,... more...
Context and Contexts
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization.... more...
Dialogue in Politics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 149.00Commemorations as part of ceremonial politics normally are dialogues, speeches and symbolic actions (laying wreaths or lighting candles) between representatives and inside audiences. A TV transmission makes TV viewers another audience participating in an outside dialogue. The BBC transmission of the first UK Holocaust Memorial Day consisted of commemorative... more...
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