Levels of Linguistic Adaptation

Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987

Volume 2

Editor

Jef Verschueren

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This volume comprises the second part of selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, August 1987.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 6:2] 1991. viii, 339 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.6.2

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
On the contextualizing function of speech rhythm in conversation: Question-answer sequences Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Peter Auer	1
Explaining a missing modal meaning: Ideology and paradigm as pragmatic parameter Steven Cushing	19
Elements of morphopragmatics Wolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi	33
Switch reference anomalies and ‘topic’ in west greenlandic: A case of pragmatics over syntax Michael Fortescue	53
Intonational phrases and syntactic focus domains Thorstein Fretheim	81
A pragmatic analysis of control in Chinese Yan Huang	113
Empathy as motivation for style shifting in narrative Jyrki Kalliokoski	147
Pragmatic constraints on ambiguous text Joseph F. Kess and Ronald A. Hoppe	163
From syntax to pragmatics: Inalienable possession in Brazilian Portuguese Michael D. Kliffer	173
On reference and deixis Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky	185
Contradiction and paradox in discourse Neal R. Norrick	195
On the language-internal interaction of prosody and pragmatic particles Jan-Ola Östman	203
Ethnolinguistic and interpretative concepts in explaining language shift Rosita Schjerve-Rindler	223
Prolegomena to the pragmatics of “situational-intentional” varieties in Kilivila language Gunter Senft	235
The pragmatics of French newspaper headlines Clyde Thogmartin	249
My mom and I are the best friends Ruth Wodak and Muriel Schulz	267
References	295
Index of names	325
Index of subjects	331

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Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

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