The Pragmatics of Adaptability
Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.
Daniel N. Silva
List of John Benjamins publications for which Daniel N. Silva plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives
Edited by Daniel N. Silva
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography
Edited by Daniel N. Silva
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 6:2 (2015) vi, 144 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2023. Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice. Pragmatics and Society 14:4, pp. 661–665
Review
2021. Chapter 6. Self-containment and contamination: Two competing circuits of adaptability. The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 117–142
This chapter explores two competing models of adaptation of discourses: self-containment and contamination. The first model is contradictorily a non-adaptable framework that scales the social circulation of text and talk as expandable, i.e. scalable, yet seemingly un-modifiable in its expansion.… read more | Chapter
2021. Introduction: The ability to form and transform in pragmatics. The Pragmatics of Adaptability, Silva, Daniel N. and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 1–24
Introduction
2017. Chapter 4. The circulation of violence in discourse. Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 107–124
This paper examines two hypotheses concerning the relationship between language and violence. (1) Language does not merely represent violence, but enacts its own type of violence. (2) The use of violent language participates in the demarcation of political and subjective viability in the public… read more | Chapter
2017. Investigating violence in language: An introduction. Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 1–30
Chapter
2015. Introduction: The pragmatics of discourse circulation. Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 161–174
Article
2015. Complex territories, complex circulations: The 'pacification' of the Complexo do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro. Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 175–196
The Complexo do Alemão, a group of 12 favelas in Rio de Janeiro, attracted the attention of Brazilian and International corporate media when the police and the army ‘pacified’ the favelas in 2010. Part of a broader political and economic project to make Rio de Janeiro ‘safe for large-scale events,… read more | Article
