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This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole.
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Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship, and ultimately contest power through discourse ...
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The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish.
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Jacques Lacan used to say that the unconscious is structured like a language. This book shows that a social organization is structured like a narrative.
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Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mean?
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In the eighth and final chapter it is suggested that the study's findings support a hegemonic view of the media. In analysing the much neglected genre of press releases, the book aims to contribute to the study of the language of the news.
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This collection of papers arises from a meeting of relevance theorists held in Osaka, May 29-30, 1993.
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This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use.
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This work discusses the discourse of silence and looks at how people relate to silence in specific conte×ts.
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A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Me×ico, in the summer of 1996.