30.4579, Books: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: McCready

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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:10:03
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: McCready

 


Title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification 
Subtitle: Register and Social Meaning 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-semantics-and-pragmatics-of-honorification-9780198821373?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Elin McCready

Paperback: ISBN:  9780198821373 Pages: 176 Price: U.S. $ 30.00


Abstract:

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions
that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in
interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many
languages worldwide, this volume is the first to approach the area from the
perspective of formal semantics and pragmatics. Elin McCready treats
honorifics - and expressions with honorific import - as carriers of expressive
content that contributes either directly or indirectly to a register
corresponding to the current formality of the speech situation. The analysis
is applied to a variety of empirical examples, including utterance and
argument honorifics in Japanese, Thai, and several other languages. It is
proposed that the distinct strategies that different languages use for
honorification have implications for the grammaticality of certain combination
of honorifics. The volume also explores the connections between honorification
and a range of theoretical issues in social meaning and the expression of
gender. It will hence appeal not only to researchers in formal semantics and
pragmatics, but also to sociolinguists, anthropological linguists, and
philosophers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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