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Levels of Linguistic Adaptation
Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987
Volume 2
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This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 July 2011
Published online on 7 July 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- On the contextualizing function of speech rhythm in conversation: Question-answer sequencesElizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Peter Auer | p. 1
- Explaining a missing modal meaning: Ideology and paradigm as pragmatic parameterSteven Cushing | p. 19
- Elements of morphopragmaticsWolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi | p. 33
- Switch reference anomalies and ‘topic’ in west greenlandic: A case of pragmatics over syntaxMichael Fortescue | p. 53
- Intonational phrases and syntactic focus domainsThorstein Fretheim | p. 81
- A pragmatic analysis of control in ChineseYan Huang | p. 113
- Empathy as motivation for style shifting in narrativeJyrki Kalliokoski | p. 147
- Pragmatic constraints on ambiguous textJoseph F. Kess and Ronald A. Hoppe | p. 163
- From syntax to pragmatics: Inalienable possession in Brazilian PortugueseMichael D. Kliffer | p. 173
- On reference and deixisBarbara Kryk-Kastovsky | p. 185
- Contradiction and paradox in discourseNeal R. Norrick | p. 195
- On the language-internal interaction of prosody and pragmatic particlesJan-Ola Östman | p. 203
- Ethnolinguistic and interpretative concepts in explaining language shiftRosita Schjerve-Rindler | p. 223
- Prolegomena to the pragmatics of “situational-intentional” varieties in Kilivila languageGunter Senft | p. 235
- The pragmatics of French newspaper headlinesClyde Thogmartin | p. 249
- My mom and I are the best friendsRuth Wodak and Muriel Schulz | p. 267
- Index of names | pp. 325–330
- Index of subjects | pp. 331–339
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