William O. Beeman
List of John Benjamins publications in which William O. Beeman is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
2025 The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura ): Pragmemic triggers as performative acts Pragmatics and Society 16:4, pp. 494–517 | Article
Ritual is an intrinsic aspect of human life. Moreover, it is transformational. Ritual performers are engaged in behavior that alters the emotional, mental, and sometimes the physical state of participants in the ritual. In order to create this transformation, ritual performers must have a clear… read more
2019 Ta’ārof: Pragmatic key to Iranian social behavior Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 203–224 | Chapter
2018 Benedict Anderson’s imagined communities Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 81–110 | Chapter
2014 Negotiating a passage to the meal in four cultures Language and Food: Verbal and nonverbal experiences, Szatrowski, Polly E. (ed.), pp. 31–52 | Article
Food plays a central role in hospitality in virtually every culture on earth. Eating together – “commensality” is perhaps one of the most basic human social acts, and is imbued with a special ritual quality. In this paper I show that there are several stages that participants in commensality pass… read more
2010 Performance pragmatics, neuroscience and evolution Pragmatics and Society 1:1, pp. 118–137 | Article
This paper addresses the question question: How do individuals affect others cognitively and emotionally through performance? Performance here is broadly defined as purposeful enactment or display behavior carried out in front of an audience. Following Alfred Schütz, Erving Goffman, Deborah Tannen… read more