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The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions
Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 316] 2020
► pp. 253–258

Index

A

  • Absurd 7, 10, 33, 34, 72, 98, 103, 108–112, 114, 134 see also Paradox, Ridicule
    • Absurd Humor 26, 28, 32
    • Absurdity 25–26, 31, 109
    • Ad Absurdum 109
    • Non-Sense/Nonsense 21, 22, 31, 32, 34, 35, 51, 110, 111
  • Accountability 233, 236, 239, 247
    • Accountability of Political Action 204, 224
    • Accountability of Social Action 207
    • Accountable 208, 217, 247
    • Accusation 10, 59-61, 67–69, 74, 76–77, 174, 176, 179, 191–192, 217, 241, 243, 245–246
  • Adaptability 86, 87
  • Adaptation 10, 86, 88, 119–124, 127, 130, 132, 139
    • Graphic Adaptation 10, 120, 121, 134, 136, 138
    • Indirect Adaptation 87
  • Addressees 1–8, 10–11, 22, 23, 25, 43, 61, 65n7, 67, 76, 100–103, 106, 123, 146–147, 159–160, 170–171, 180–182, 184–189, 193, 195–196, 206–207
    • Addressivity 8, 11, 123, 167, 175, 180–181, 183, 189, 191, 195, 199
    • Addressivity Strategies 180, 199
    • Hearer 1, 3, 5, 24–25, 40, 86, 88, 92, 101, 106, 169–170, 208
    • Recipient 3–4, 73, 85, 100, 112, 145–147, 154n1, 155–158, 160, 170, 179, 185, 188, 196–198, 198n1, 199
  • Addresser 6–7, 21, 25, 67, 102, 104
    • Speaker 1–9, 11, 21–22, 24–25, 29, 39–43, 47–48, 52–54, 60–61, 66, 85–86, 88–89, 91–93, 97–101, 101n4, 102–104, 106, 114, 132, 146–151, 155, 157, 160–161, 168–170, 172–180, 182, 185, 188–192, 194, 196, 198–199, 203–205, 207–209, 213, 215–217, 219–221, 223–225, 233
  • Agency 89, 91, 93, 99, 221
    • Co-Agency 93
    • Common Agency 90
    • Political Agency 90
  • Aggressive/ness 176, 182, 232, 236, 245
  • Animate 89
    • Inanimate/Exanimate 89, 91, 93
  • Animator 98, 101–102, 107, 112, 114, 123, 132
  • Argot 31, 35
  • Argumentation 65, 215, 217–218, 223–224 see also Rhetoric
    • Argument 99, 104, 109, 217–218, 220–221, 223–224, 233, 243, 247
    • Argumentative 11, 203, 205–206, 212, 218, 220–221, 223–225
    • Counter-Argument 68, 223
  • Audience 3, 10–11, 21–22, 41–43, 60, 66, 100–101, 119–120, 122–128, 132, 136, 138, 167, 172–173, 175, 178, 180–181, 183–191, 193–200, 204, 237, 240, 246–247
  • Author 6, 10, 26, 39, 46–49, 52–56, 90–91, 93, 97–101, 101n3, 102–108, 111–114, 151, 153, 158–161, 168–170, 176, 210
    • Implied Author 10, 102, 104
  • Authority 7–8, 62, 88, 157, 161, 213
    • Authoritative 161
    • Authoritarian 176
  • Avoidance dilemma 234, 237, 245

B

  • Blending theory 44–45, 52, 54
    • Blended space 44–45, 52
  • Blog see Facebook
  • Broadcast see media

C

  • Censorship 10, 121, 129
  • Challenge 2–4, 8, 11, 53, 63–65, 65n9, 77, 127, 181, 184, 203–206, 212–215, 217–221, 223–225, 232
  • Chronotope 119, 121, 127–128, 131–132, 136, 138
  • Clue 4–6, 9, 20–22, 24, 29, 33–34, 40, 46, 54–55, 66, 100, 103, 147, 170, 198, 198n1
    • Contextual clue 4, 39, 54–55, 147, 198
  • Coherence 221, 223–224
  • Co-locution 85, 92
  • Comment see Facebook, Meta-comment, Follow-up
  • Comics 122–124, 126, 134, 136
  • Commit/ment 101, 138, 175, 177, 179–180, 185, 189, 193, 203, 206, 208–209, 213, 220, 224
  • Compliment 64, 65n7–8, 71, 73–74
  • Condemn/ation 8, 11, 12, 59–60, 70, 231–237, 237n1, 237–248 see also accusation
    • Condemnable act 242
    • Condemnable violation 246
  • Context 1–3, 5–6, 8–12, 19–20, 23, 26, 43–44, 46–55, 64, 73, 85–90, 92, 95, 97–98, 103, 114, 119–120, 138–139, 145, 147–149, 151–152, 154n1, 156, 160–161, 170–171, 178, 180, 182, 192, 203–206, 208–209, 211–218, 220, 222–226, 232, 241, 247
    • Context Chain 218, 220–221, 223–224
    • Context’s Context 95
    • Context Marker 220–221
    • Context Sequence 212
    • Context Strategies/ Practices 224–225
    • Context Value 206
    • Contextual 4, 10, 39, 54–55, 85, 90, 103, 147, 181, 198, 206
    • Contextual Effect 120
    • Contextual knowledge/Information 5, 21, 29, 44, 48, 170, 198, 198n1
    • Organizational Context 145–146, 151 ; see also under Discourse
    • Recontextualize 64, 217–218
  • Cooperative Principle/ Conversational Implicature Model 4, 21, 40–41, 92, 98, 103, 106, 114, 207
    • Flouting of Maxims 4, 5, 21, 24–25, 29–30, 33–35, 39–40, 48, 66, 66n10, 69, 72–74, 77, 98, 103, 106–109, 111
    • Implicature/ Implicated Message 1–2, 4–5, 11, 21, 23, 29, 41–44, 66, 66n10, 203, 216, 222
    • Implicate 43, 213, 215, 217–218, 223, 225–226
    • Maxim/ Supermaxim 2, 207
    • Maxim of Manner 4, 21, 72–74, 107, 245
    • Maxim of Quality/Truthfulness 21, 24–25, 29–30, 33–34, 39, 41–42, 48, 66, 66n10, 69, 72–73, 207, 222–223
    • Maxim of Quantity 21, 29–30, 34, 72–73, 107–109
    • Maxim of Relevance 21
  • Conventions of Poiesis 91
  • Co-text/ Cotext/ Linguistic Context 6, 64, 69, 71, 77, 85, 87, 211, 214, 216, 222, 224
    • Co-textual 10, 100, 103
  • Credibility 8, 11, 105, 205, 218, 221, 225
  • Criticism 8–9, 12, 24, 26, 30, 33–36, 44–46, 48–50, 52, 61, 66, 68, 70–71, 77, 97–99, 101, 103–104, 106–111, 113–114, 121, 134, 176, 178, 181, 190, 198, 217–218
    • Social Criticism 45, 106, 108–109
  • Cue 4–5, 7, 9–10, 19–24, 27–36, 43, 66, 75, 97–98, 100, 102–106, 108–114, 148–149, 170, 198n1, 216n5
    • Contextual cue/s 4

D

  • Debate 11, 94, 123, 167–175, 178–182, 184–186, 187–199, 204, 210
  • Default 3, 208–209
  • Direct/ness 1–3, 8, 11, 43, 61, 64, 65n7, 67, 76, 90–95, 102, 107, 111, 119–120, 145–147, 149–150, 153–154, 156–161, 167–171, 174–178, 181–185, 187, 189, 191–195, 197–200, 205, 217, 232, 234, 237, 239–241, 247–248
    • Directness at the meso level 11, 167–168, 173, 182, 197, 199
    • Directness at the micro level 11, 167–168, 173–174, 180, 182, 197, 199
    • Indirect/ness 1–5, 7–11, 20–21, 39–40, 43, 48, 50, 60, 66, 78, 85–93, 93n3, 94–95, 98, 103–104, 106, 109, 111, 119–120, 123–124, 126–127, 132, 138, 145–151, 153–154, 154n1, 155–156, 158–161, 167–171, 174–175, 177–179, 181–184, 186, 190–193, 195, 197–200, 217, 231–232, 234, 237, 241–242, 247
    • Indirection 3, 95, 170, 173, 177, 179, 182, 191
    • In/direction cline 169, 174, 197
  • Discourse 6–7, 23, 64, 70–71, 78, 85, 90–95, 146, 161, 167–170, 173–174, 182, 185–186, 188–191, 195–198, 204, 206, 209, 209n3, 211, 213–214, 218, 220, 222–223, 225, 233, 236, 243
    • Computer-Mediated Discourse 145–146, 148, 150
    • Critical Discourse Analysis 168
    • Digital Discourse 11, 151
    • Discourse Acts/Actions 173–174, 177, 180, 182, 191, 199
    • Discourse Analysis 8, 145–146
    • Discourse Effectiveness 145
    • Discourse Pragmatics 206, 209, 209n3, 213–214, 220, 224
    • Discursive Acts/Actions 67
    • Discursive Devices 157
    • Discursive Force 209
    • Discursive Functions 43
    • Discursive Practices/ Strategies 146, 156
    • Discursive Rituals 233
    • Discursive Value 203, 206, 208–211, 215, 218, 220, 222
    • Habitual Discourse Conventions 198
    • Institutional Discourse 167
    • Interpersonal Discourse 167
    • Media Discourse 64, 167 ; see also Media
    • Organizational Discourse 146 ; see also under Context
    • Political Discourse 59, 171, 206, 214
    • Public Discourse 9, 41, 47, 67, 75, 237
    • Quoted Discourse 94 ; see also Quote

E

  • Echo/Echoing 4, 7, 9–10, 22, 24, 30, 33, 35, 47–48, 50, 59–60, 64–67, 69–78, 106–108, 111
    • Echoic Interpretation 9, 41
    • Echoic Mention 9, 19, 21–22, 24, 29, 33–35, 47–48, 66, 98, 103, 106–108, 114
    • Multi Stage Echo/ing 59, 69–70, 77
  • Egocentric 95 see also Pluricentric
    • Egocentric Acts/Activities 85–86, 93
  • Electronic mail 145, 147–148
  • Emoticon 126 ; see also Facebook, WhatsApp
  • Entertainment 9, 46
  • Ethos 10, 59–61, 63–65, 67, 69–72, 74, 76–78
    • Anti-Ethos comments 59, 63–64, 67, 71–72
    • Pro-Ethos comments 59, 63–65, 67
  • Epideictic 233
  • Epideictic rhetoric 231, 233
  • Erasure 85, 88
    • Evaluate/ion 2–9, 8, 24, 26, 35, 44, 60, 168–169, 176, 190–191, 196, 207–209, 209n3, 213, 217–218, 220, 223, 225
    • Critical Evaluation 45, 46, 54
    • Evaluative 39, 41, 43, 54–55, 215, 218
    • Evaluative Act 192
    • Evaluative Effect 8
    • Evaluative Judgement 24–25
    • Evaluative Meaning/Value 24, 45, 48, 52
    • Negative Evaluation 26, 35, 43–44, 46, 48, 60–61, 176, 179, 181, 215, 218, 220–221, 233
  • Evasion/ Evasive 221, 232, 237, 241–245, 247
  • Explicitation 19, 23, 23n2, 24, 29, 34–35

F

  • Face see Polite/ness
  • Facebook 5, 59, 62, 62n3, 63, 63n5, 64, 66, 68, 125–126, 138
    • Blog/ger 92, 124–125, 138
    • Comment/On-line Comment/Readers’ Comment 9, 59, 62n3, 63–64, 65n8, 66–67, 69–74, 75n20, 76, 78 ; see also Meta-comments, Follow-up
    • Commenter 10, 59–61, 65, 65n8–9, 67, 72
    • Post 9, 59–60, 62, 62n3, 63–66, 68–69, 71–72, 74, 75n20, 76–78
  • Felicity Condition see Speech Act
  • Feminism 134 ; see also Gender
  • Feminist 129, 134
  • Figure 40
    • Figure of Speech 50
    • Figurative 39, 44–45, 49, 53, 55
    • Figurative Interpretation/Reading 42–43, 55
  • Follow-Up 63–64, 152, 204, 210, 214, 232, 237 ; see also Facebook
  • Footing 10, 97–98, 101–105, 112, 114
  • Free indirect Discourse 88

G

  • Gender 150, 161 ; see also Feminism
  • Graded Salience Hypothesis 44
  • Graphic Novel 119, 122–123, 126, 128–129, 139

H

  • Hearer see Addressee
  • Het achterhuis 124, 132
  • Hierarchical Positions 146, 160–161
  • Humor/ous 5, 7, 9, 19–23, 23n2, 24–36, 46, 48, 52–54, 67, 97–98, 103–106, 108–111, 113, 122, 127, 129, 134
    • Absurd Humor see Absurd
    • Comic 134
    • Humorous Irony/Ironic Humor 20, 24–25, 46, 105 ; see also Irony
    • Joke 23–24, 27, 33, 35, 111, 111
    • Local-Logic 31, 110–111, 114
    • Non-Sense see Absurd
    • Punch Line 21, 23, 27, 33, 110–111, 114
    • Script Opposition 21–22, 31, 33–34, 110–111, 113
    • Semantic Script Theory 22, 110
    • Superiority Theory 25
    • Two-Scripts Humor 52, 54
    • Verbal Humor 23, 32, 34–35
    • Violation of Expectations 21, 110, 113
    • Word Play 21, 32

I

  • Icon/ic 124, 128, 134, 136, 136n6, 158, 162
  • Image 45, 60, 102, 123, 130, 138, 175
    • Image Restoration 241, 246
  • Implication 4, 40, 111, 213, 218, 241
    • Implied 24–25, 31, 35, 39–40, 49–50, 54, 62n1, 99, 112
      • Implied Author see Author
      • Implied Meaning see Meaning
      • Implied Reader 97–100
  • Implicature see Cooperative Principle
  • Incongruity/ Incongruency 22, 22n1, 23, 25, 27–28, 31, 106, 108, 110, 113–114, 205
  • Indirectness see Directness
  • Interpret/ation 1–7, 9–11, 20–24, 29, 33–36, 40, 40n1, 41–45, 47, 49–51, 53–55, 66, 73, 85, 88, 94, 98, 100, 103–104, 106–109, 113–114, 119–120, 127, 128–130, 132, 136, 147–148, 149, 151, 169–170, 176, 178–181, 188, 192, 197–199, 206–207, 218, 221, 225, 234
    • Echoic Interpretation see Echoic
    • Interpretation Process 1, 4–5, 9, 22, 41–44, 55
    • Interpretive Use of Language 120
    • Interpretive Utterance 119, 128
    • Ironic Interpretation see Ironic
    • Metaphorical Interpretation see Metaphor/ic
    • Reinterpreting 124
    • Visual Interpretation 129, 130, 132
  • Intertextual/ity 4–7, 10, 128, 245
  • Ironic/Irony 5, 7–9, 19–30, 32–36, 39–50, 54–55, 59, 64, 65n8, 66–67, 69, 71–73, 75–78, 97–98, 101, 103–105, 107–108, 110–114, 129, 148, 168
    • Conventionalized Ironic Utterance 25
    • Echoic Mention Theory of Irony see Echo
    • Humorous Irony see Humor
    • Ironic Echoes/Echoing 4, 7, 9–10, 59–60, 65–67, 71, 75–76
    • Ironic Gap 43–45, 55
    • Ironic Humor see Humor
    • Ironic Tension 43, 45, 53
    • Metaphoric/al Irony 9, 39–42, 45–46, 54–55
    • Non-Conventionalized Irony 26
    • Pretense Theory of Irony 22, 44
    • Sarcastic Irony 25
    • Situational Irony 28
    • Surrealistic Irony 19, 25–26, 28, 32, 34–36
    • Verbal Irony 47
    • Victim/Target of Irony 8, 29, 48, 50, 54, 66–67, 69, 72, 74–75, 105, 108, 111

J

  • Juxtaposition 31, 108, 112, 114

L

  • Licentia poetica 94

M

  • Maxim see Cooperative principle
  • Meaning
    • Accessible Meaning 49, 51–53
    • Community Understanding of Meaning 87
    • Covert/Implicit/Implied Meaning 5, 25, 176
    • Global Meaning 99–100, 102, 106, 109, 114
    • Literal Meaning 1, 25, 39, 41–50, 52–55, 169
    • Polysemic Meaning 6
    • Sentence Meaning 5
    • Speaker/Speaker’s Meaning 1, 5, 9, 21, 42, 97–98, 100, 170, 198, 198n1
    • Utterance Meaning 5, 21, 100, 103, 111
  • Media 46–47, 54–55, 64, 67–68, 70, 88, 167–168, 171, 199, 204, 232, 237, 237n1
    • Mass Media 46
    • Journalistic Practice 231, 233
    • New Media 119, 121, 126–127, 139
    • News 75n20, 88, 232, 237, 237n1, 244
    • News Interviews 66, 204, 213, 231, 234
    • “Story” of New Media 125–127, 132, 138
    • TV/Radio Broadcast 101, 167–168, 172, 231–232, 235, 241
  • Mental space 44–45, 51–52, 54
  • Metaphor/ic 5, 9, 39–40, 40n1, 41–54, 70, 91, 106–107, 128, 130, 132, 168
    • Conceptual Metaphor Model 44
    • Metaphoric/al Irony see Irony
  • Meta-comment/Metacomment 208, 216, 223
  • Meta-linguistic/Metalinguistic 5, 52, 54, 105, 109, 170, 186, 198, 198n1, 199
  • Metapragmatic 181, 191
  • Metarepresentation 40
  • Meta-textual 7, 104
  • Mock/ery 43, 52, 54, 66, 108
  • Modal/ity 7, 119–120, 129, 136, 138, 155
  • Multimodal 10, 119, 130, 138

N

  • Narrative 10, 87, 97–98, 98n1, 99, 99n2, 100, 102, 104, 236, 239
    • Narrative Voice 10, 97–99, 102–103, 114
    • Narrator 10, 27, 29–30, 34, 97–99, 102, 104–106, 109, 112, 114, 132
    • Unreliable Narrator 100, 105
  • Non-sense see Absurd

O

  • Obligatory/ Non-obligatory Shift 23
  • Opponent/Rival 8, 11, 59–60, 73n15, 77–78, 86, 176–180, 187, 189–192, 194–197, 199, 204, 212–213, 218, 220–221, 223–224, 231, 248
  • Ozymandias 91

P

  • Paradox 45, 148 ; see also Absurd
  • Participation 171–173, 189, 193, 206
    • Participation Framework 97–99, 101, 103, 106
    • Participation Indirection/Indirectness 3, 170, 197 ; see also directness
  • Pericles 91, 93–94
  • Plagiarism 7, 94
  • Pluricentric 86–87, 93 see also Egocentric
    • Pluricentricity 87, 95
    • Pluricentric Act 10, 85–86
  • Polite/ness 2–3, 8, 11, 61, 113, 145–151, 156, 158–161, 169
    • Face 2, 7, 10–11, 60–61, 67, 89, 147, 203, 213
    • Face-Threatening/Threat 2, 11, 61, 65, 89–90, 146–149, 158, 205
    • Face Wants/Needs 206
    • Face-Work 8, 61, 214
    • Impolite/ness 2, 182
    • Negative Face 61, 67, 147, 214
    • Positive Face 10, 59–61, 64–65, 67, 70–72, 74, 76–78
  • Polyphony/ic 4–7, 9–10, 73, 73n15, 74, 78–79, 119, 121, 124, 129–131, 136, 138
  • Position/ing 8, 59–62, 64, 66, 69, 71–72, 74–78, 102, 188, 196, 213, 231, 233–236, 238–239, 242–247
  • Possible Worlds 43, 100
  • Presuppose/Presupposition 7, 12, 21–22, 92, 100, 180, 203, 205, 208–209, 213–214, 217, 233
  • Pretense Theory of Irony see Irony
  • Prime Minister’s Questions 11, 203
  • Principal 98, 101–102, 109, 111–112, 114, 132
  • Processing Effort 120, 125, 128, 138
  • Production Format 101, 211
  • Prosumers 127
  • Public Discourse see Discourse

Q

  • Questioning 194, 232
  • Quote/Quotation 7, 51, 63–64, 69–70, 93–95, 136, 218
    • ‘Janus’-Like Quoting 95

R

  • Reading Paths 127, 130
  • Recipient see Addressee
  • Register 6–7, 31, 63n4, 75n17, 103, 106, 108, 114
    • Register Shift/Deviation 74, 106
  • Relevance
    • Maxim of Relevance see Cooperative Principle
    • Principle of Relevance 119–120, 138
    • Relevance Theory 1–2, 24, 39, 41, 119, 151, 170
  • Retention/Suppression Hypothesis 39, 44
  • Request 2–3, 11, 61, 69, 75, 89, 145–162, 174, 199, 204, 220–221
  • Rhetoric/al 8, 11, 60–61, 64, 75–76, 99, 107–108, 168, 185, 203, 205, 231, 233 see also Argumentation
    • Epideictic Rhetoric see Epideictic
    • Pragmatic-Rhetorical Functions 4, 60
  • Rhetorical Question 74, 177, 217, 223
  • Ridicule/ous 43, 46, 60, 70, 72, 107, 109, 111–112, 114, 239 ; see also Absurd, Paradox, Mock
  • Ritual of Loyalty 232, 234, 247

S

  • Scripts of Humor see Humor
  • Secret Annex 121–122, 124, 127–130, 132
  • Secret Communion 101, 109, 111–112, 114
  • Self-Censorship 121
  • Sequence/Sequentiality 190, 203–205, 208–215, 216n5, 217, 219, 225, 238
  • Speaker see Addresser
  • Speaker’s Meaning see Meaning
  • Speech Act
    • Direct/ Indirect Speech Act 1, 85, 88, 176
    • Felicity Condition 154–155, 157, 208–209, 223, 225
    • Quasi-Canonical Speech Act 89
    • Sincerity Condition 21, 66, 69, 73–74, 77, 109, 111, 207
    • Speech Act of Compliment see Compliment
    • Speech Act of Condemn see Condemn/ation
    • Speech Act of Request see Request
  • Style 26–27, 31, 35, 46, 107–108, 110, 114, 127, 130, 132, 136, 148, 161, 169, 177, 188, 189
  • Surrealistic Irony see Irony

T

  • “Talking Heads” 85–86
  • Thucydides 91–93
  • Tinge Hypothesis 44
  • Translation
    • Indirect Translation 10, 23, 119–121, 123–124, 126–127, 138
    • Intralingual Translation 124
    • Translator as ‘Traitor’ 94
  • Trope 39
  • Truth/ truthfulness 11, 22, 26–27, 95, 176, 178, 192, 203–209, 209n3, 210–216, 216n5, 217–226, 228–229
    • Post-Truth 209n3
    • Maxim of Truthfulness see Cooperative Principle
  • Twitter 125

V

  • Validity Claim 207, 207n1, 208, 213, 221
  • Viewpoint Space 45
  • Voice 3–4, 6–7, 9–12, 24, 73, 73n15, 77–78, 85, 88, 91, 97–98, 100–102, 105, 112, 114, 120–121, 123, 129–130, 132, 136, 138, 179, 188, 233
    • Discoursants’ Voice 93–94
    • Narrative Voice see Narrative
    • Speaking Voice 88
    • Voiceless 103, 114

W

  • What is said 1, 25, 43, 198, 207
  • WhatsApp 125
  • Workplace 145, 148, 161
  • “World at One’s Feet” 92