29.3319, Books: Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Staley

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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:54:46
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Staley

 


Title: Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation 
Subtitle: Speech acts and address forms in context 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 291  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.291 


Author: Larssyn Staley

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263926 Pages: 201 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263926 Pages: 201 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263926 Pages: 201 Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200945 Pages: 201 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200945 Pages: 201 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027200945 Pages: 201 Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features,
such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of
address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational
pragmatics is the study of such uses, according to region, gender, age,
ethnicity and socioeconomic status, among national and sub-national varieties
of pluricentric languages. Despite the wide focus just outlined, this volume
provides the first study of pragmatic variation across different social
classes, using naturally occurring, interactional data. The discourse analyzed
here was collected in over twenty restaurant service encounters spanning three
price points. The aim of this study is two-fold: to provide a potential
framework for how pragmatic variables and their context can be defined, using
the concept of a communicative activity, and to investigate socioeconomic
variation in pragmatics by taking offers, thanks responses and address forms
as examples. This study contributes, both on a methodological and empirical
level, to the growing body of research in variational pragmatics, as well as
speech acts, terms of address, relational work and sociolinguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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