Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languagesKlaus P. Schneider, Anne Barron This collection of papers is designed to establish variational pragmatics. This new field is situated at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology and aims at systematically investigating the effect of macro-social pragmatic variation on language in action. As such, it challenges the widespread assumption in the area of pragmatics that language communities are homogeneous and also addresses the current research gap in sociolinguistics for variation on the pragmatic level. The introductory chapter establishes the rationale for studying variational pragmatics as a separate field of inquiry, systematically sketches the broader theoretical framework and presents a framework for further analysis. The papers which follow are located within this framework. They present empirical variational pragmatic research focusing on regional varieties of pluricentric languages. Speech acts and other discourse phenomena are addressed and analysed in a number of regional varieties of Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. The seminal nature of this volume, its empirical orientation and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to both researchers and students in pragmatics and sociolinguistics. |
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American English analysis Argentineans Austrian German Barron Blum-Kulka Boca de Uchire British English callers CANCODE compliments context conversation corpora corpus Corpus Linguistics Cross-Cultural Pragmatics cultural dialectology dialogues differences discourse employed EngE English English example expressions of gratitude find findings first five forms function German German GREET grounder head act identified IFID indirect influence interaction interlocutor intralingual Irish English justifications K. P. Schneider Kasper LCIE lexical linguistic Mantefio mitigation Mouton de Gruyter move types Muhr national varieties Netherlands O’Keeffe one’s opening turns party phatic Placencia Pluricentric Languages politeness pragmatic variation preference Quebecois query preparatory Quitefios Quito radio phone-ins realisations reflect regional REQ-ID response tokens Schlieben-Lange & Weydt SELF-ID significantly situation small talk social Spanish speakers specific speech act spoken statistically significant strategies supportive moves syntactic downgraders Table thank tion variational pragmatics varieties of English Venezuelans yeah Zealand English