35.2440, Books: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Levisen and Ye (eds.) (2024)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2440. Fri Sep 06 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2440, Books: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Levisen and Ye (eds.) (2024)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Joel Jenkins, Daniel Swanson, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Joel Jenkins <joel at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Levisen and Ye (eds.) (2024)


Title: The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger
Subtitle: Cross-linguistic perspectives
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series   346
Publication Year: 20240815
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.346

Editor: Carsten Levisen
Editor: Zhengdao Ye
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214959 Pages: 259 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214959 Pages: 259 Price: U.K. £ 97.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214959 Pages: 259 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214959 Pages: 259 Price: Europe EURO 121.90
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246783 Pages: 259 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246783 Pages: 259 Price: U.K. £ 97.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027246783 Pages: 259 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Abstract:

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the
discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and
proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry.
Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic,
Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish. Focusing on
global and local contexts surrounding “living in dangerous times”,
this book showcases how the new model of cultural pragmatics can be
used to illuminate cultural meanings in discourse. Unlike the
universalist approaches to pragmatics, cultural pragmatics focuses on
understanding the linguacultural logics of discourse, and in the case
of “danger”, the multiple cultural logics around which the themes and
domains of “danger” revolve. The approach makes use of natural
semantic metalanguage (NSM) as its principal analytical tool, and
concepts such as “cultural keywords” and “cultural scripts” figure
prominently as bearers of culture-specific meanings.  <br />The book
will be of interest to students of pragmatics and discourse studies,
researchers in cultural and cognitive semantics, anthropological
linguistics, global humanities, political rhetoric and environmental
studies, as well as linguists working in applied areas, such as risk
and disaster studies, crisis and emergency communication.

Written In: English (eng)



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List to support the student editors:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2440
----------------------------------------------------------