Table of contents
Introduction: The ability to form and transform in pragmatics
Section I.Adapting truth, speech acts, and ideologies
Chapter 1.Adaptability and truth
Chapter 2.How do we adapt ourselves in performing an illocutionary act?
Chapter 3.Adapting to changing concepts of time: From life to fiction
Chapter 4.The reality of technological worldviews: Time and space frames of reference in the world of self-driving cars
Section II.Adapting text and textuality
Chapter 5.Ad-appting children’s stories
Chapter 6.Self-containment and contamination: Two competing circuits of adaptability
Chapter 7.Quotation, meta-data and transparency of sources in mediated political discourse
Chapter 8.
The adaptability of becoming: Karina Buhr’s becoming-junglehood
Section III.Adaptive communities of practice
Chapter 9.Face, conflict, and adaptability in mediated intercultural invitations: Young adults navigate complexities of ethnicity, gender, nationality and age
Chapter 10.Discussing breast cancer in cyber spaces: A pragmatic study
Chapter 11.Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line: A corpus-pragmatic approach
Chapter 12.How LINE users struggle to come to terms with the adaptability-adaptivity dilemma
Section IV.Adapting learning and teaching
Chapter 13.Apprenticeship in microbiology: Embodied adaptation to experimental and technological aspects of learning
Chapter 14.Technological context: A new pragmatic product created by mobile devices
Chapter 15.Language policy and language teaching: Conditions of adaptability
Index
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