Selected papers: Action Theory and the Production of Speech (B. Tuller, J.A.S. Kelso). Child language—Overview (S. Strömqvist). Definition of the Situation (N.K. Denzin). Education and Language—Overview (K. Perera). Foreigner Talk (M. Clyne). General Semantics (W.S. Bainbridge). Home Language and School Language (M. MacLure). Immigrant Language Issues (M. Heller). Journalism (C. Maclean). Kinship Terminology (E.L. Schusky). Language and Society (K. Rajagopalan). Linguistic Ethonocentrism (M.L. Apte). Manipulation (N. Fairclough). Moods, Clause Types, and Speech Acts (K. Allan). Nationalism and Language (L. Greenfield). Ordinary Language Philosophy (L.J. Cohen). Politeness (G. Kasper). Reading, Theories of (G.E. MacKinnon). Semantics and Pragmatics (A.H. Jucker). Speech Acts and Grammar (K. Allan). Taboo Words (M.L. Apte). Verstehen (G. Oakes). Written and Spoken Language: Relationship (H. Haberland).
Roger Schank, Northwestern University, USA
Jacob Mey and his contributors have produced a treasure trove!
Freud and e-mail in one volume: the Concise Encyclopedia of
Pragmatics is an invigorating reminder of the essential diversity
of language use.
Richard W. Janney, University of Munich, Germany
No one is better qualified to sort out the pragmatic wastebasket
than Jacob Mey, co-founder of the Journal of Pragmatics, editor of
one of the earliest collections of articles on pragmatics, and
author of the first accessible pragmatics textbook. His new Concise
Encyclopedia of Pragmatics is another impressive achievement,
containing hundreds of excellently written articles reflecting the
broadest possible spectrum of pragmatic interests. Students of
pragmatics will appreciate its clear treatment of basic concepts,
principles, theories, and methods. Professionals will profit from
its comprehensive, authoritative, thematically organized overview
of historical developments and future research perspectives. With
this breadth and depth, the Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics is
predestined to become the standard pragmatics reference work for
the turn of the millenium. Anyone interested in pragmatics must
have it in their personal library.
Ken Turner, University of Brighton
...a book that contains much of interest to students of linguistics
and to the discipline's more seasoned professionals. ...readers who
share the editor's preference for a sociological perspective will
find much in this book for them to consult with frequency.
Journal of Linguistics
The Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics is a rich and rewarding
introduction to the dizzying range of issues, methodologies and
topics that have come to fall under the general rubric of
pragmatics. Ranging from such traditional topics as Anaphora,
Aspect, Entitlement and Tense, to highly politicized issues such as
Emancipatory Linguistics, Power and Language and Hegemony, the
Encyclopedia is not so much an overview of an established academic
field as an invitation to a debate over the question, "What is
pragmatics?"... Useful for both experts and students, the
Encyclopedia represents well the current state of pragmatics:
variously diverse, rigorous, politically engaged, critical,
formalistic, analytic, contemporary, and always challenging.
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
Edwin Battistella, Wayne State College
In the preface, Mey notes that encyclopedias have traditionally
been fact books that allowed a wide audience to judge intellectual
endeavours for themselves. In the Concise Encyclopedia of
Pragmatics he has certainly accomplished this.
Language
Sergio Zanini, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste,
Italy
...the Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics represents an important
book. It is impossible not to appreciate the contents and the
format of the volume. Authors present, with competence and
effectively, both classical and new issues of pragmatics.
...extremely positive opinion on the Concise Encylopedia of
Pragmatics, which offers, a coherent, modern and pragmatic view on
human communication behaviour... an important milestone in
pragmatics and represents a reference book both for experts and for
people not deeply involved in this linguistic research field.
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