What is it about?
This invaluable book is the 8th volume of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights concentrating on the most salient topics in the realm of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (DA). It begins with an up-to-date synopsis of its field of interest and brings together an anthology of fifteen entries and seminal overviews and studies by the most distinguished scholars, such as White, Chilton, Wodak, Ostman, Sarangi etc. It tackles, with many other interdisciplinary, discursive and pertinent themes, theories and perspectives in rhetoric, cognitive linguistics, and semantics, studies on language acquisition, sociolinguistics, communication studies, philosophy, and literature.
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Why is it important?
It tackles, with many other interdisciplinary, discursive and pertinent themes, theories and perspectives in rhetoric, cognitive linguistics, and semantics, studies on language acquisition, sociolinguistics, communication studies, philosophy, and literature.
Perspectives
In the prologue to this volume, Zienkowski indicates that this collective volume is far from exhaustive (regarded as a shortcoming) and might fail to encompass all pertinent approaches to discourse, such as those presented under the headings of post-structuralist discourse analysis, discursive psychology, or conversation analysis. Those mentioned gaps might be filled in future updates of the Handbook.
Dr. Bahram Kazemian
Islamic Azad University Tabriz Branch
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This page is a summary of: Jan Zienkowski Jan-Ola Östman Jef Verschueren: Discursive Pragmatics: Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, Intercultural Pragmatics, November 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ip-2018-0026.
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