Jacob L. Mey
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jacob L. Mey is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0920-3079
Journal
The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey
Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.
Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution
Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey
This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey
The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 36] 1998. xi, 272 pp.
Language and Discourse: Test and Protest. A Festschrift for Petr Sgall
Edited by Jacob L. Mey
The present volume was brought together on the occasion of Petr Sgall’s 60th birthday. It bears testimony to the multifarious and variegated character of his background and activities. It is to be hoped that this kind of variety will contribute – as Petr Sgall strives to do – to a broader and… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 19] 1986. xiii, 611 pp.
Whose Language?: A study in Linguistic Pragmatics
Jacob L. Mey
"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 3] 1985. ix, 412 pp.
2023 Activity types and pragmatic acts Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment, D’hondt, Sigurd, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Chapter
2022 Prologue: On the dangers of metaphoring Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 1. Adaptability and truth The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 27–36 | Chapter
Factual statements are supposed to be necessarily ‘true’, as opposed to people’s opinions. But what is often not taken into account is the fact that statements always are by a speaker whose relationship to the truth, or command of the facts may be less evident. In particular, leaning on an… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics: Values, goals, ranking, and internet adaptability Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 27–45 | Chapter
A pragmatic (rather than merely ‘extended’) perspective on internet user values regards both the value(s) of the interaction and those of its results. Firstly, a pragmatic evaluation presupposes that the interactants are agreed on what to evaluate and how, which implies the values being ordered… read more
2021 Introduction: The ability to form and transform in pragmatics The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction
2020 Indirectness and co-construction: A discourse-pragmatic view The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions, Livnat, Zohar, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch (eds.), pp. 85–96 | Chapter
Indirectness in language can basically be understood in two different ways: on the one hand, there is the indirectness that is associated with the meaning (either literal or ‘indirect’) of the speaker’s words; on the other hand, we have the indirectness that is specific for the discourse,… read more
2018 How social is the internet? A pragmatic view Internet Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 13–28 | Article
To many, the collocation of the terms ‘internet’ and ‘social’ may seem a bit strange, even contradictory. Either the internet is by definition social, or it is, by observation and intuition, a rather anti-social affair. The article tries to dispel this ambiguity of attribution, by focusing on… read more
2017 Bhatia, 2015. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and Practice Pragmatics and Society 8:1, pp. 155–160 | Review
2015 Sequentiality and follow-ups The Dynamics of Political Discourse: Forms and functions of follow-ups, Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman and Lawrence N. Berlin (eds.), pp. 17–31 | Article
A pragmatic view of text production and consumption involves placing the text in a total world context. This context should not be seen as a static collocation of features or parameters; rather, it is a constantly evolving conglomerate of ever-changing conditions, both human and worldly. In… read more
2014 Review of Han & Cadierno (2010): Linguistic Relativity in SLA: Thinking for Speaking Pragmatics and Society 5:1, pp. 156–163 | Review
2012 The compleat angle on pragmatics: A personal note Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 213–218 | Article
2011 Speech acts in context Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?, Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi (eds.), pp. 171–180 | Article
Some American linguist once said: ‘The text is all we have’. I would like to add that there is no text without context. With regard to speech acts, this idea is often encapsulated in the term ‘situated speech act’, in order to capture the notion that speech acts, in themselves, are not ‘real’: they… read more
2010 Editorial Pragmatics and Society 1:1, pp. 1–8 | Article
2004 Introduction: Pragmatics of Technology Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution, Gorayska, Barbara and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Miscellaneous
2004 The unspeakable gift: Jouissance and interdiction: A reply to Shirley Sharon-Zisser Pragmatics & Cognition 12:1, pp. 93–103 | Miscellaneous
2002 Introduction: Pragmatics of Technology International Journal of Cognition and Technology 1:1, pp. 1–20 | Miscellaneous
1998 The Pragmatics of Transition Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991, Chilton, Paul, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 25–34 | Article
1995 The Last of the Canterbury Tales: Artificial Intelligence in the Fith Millennium Prague Linguistic Circle Papers: Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série, Hajičová, Eva, Miroslav Červenka, Oldřich Leška † and Petr Sgall (eds.), pp. 261–296 | Article
1994 How to do good things with words: A social pragmatics for survival Pragmatics 4:2, pp. 239–263 | Article
1992 The Pragmatics of Semeiosis Current Advances in Semantic Theory, Stamenov, Maxim I. (ed.), pp. 219–238 | Article
1991 Literacy: A Social Skill Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the XII World Congress on Reading, Baker, Carolyn and Allan Luke (eds.), pp. 83–100 | Article
1987 “Breaking the Seal of Time”: the pragmatics of poetics Language Topics: Essays in honour of Michael Halliday, Steele, Ross and Terry Threadgold (eds.), pp. 281–292 | Article
1986 “PSG” Pas si grave Language and Discourse: Test and Protest, Mey, Jacob L. (ed.), pp. 3–24 | Article
1977 14. Linguistics as a practical science Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann, Hopper, Paul J. (ed.), pp. 235–264 | Chapter