Cultural Keywords in Discourse
Edited by Carsten Levisen and Sophia Waters
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277] 2017. ix, 249 pp.
Sophia Waters
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sophia Waters plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2017 Chapter 10. An invitation to keyword studies: Guidance for future research Cultural Keywords in Discourse, Levisen, Carsten and Sophia Waters (eds.), pp. 235–242 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 1. How words do things with people Cultural Keywords in Discourse, Levisen, Carsten and Sophia Waters (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 2. Nice as a cultural keyword: The semantics behind Australian discourses of sociality Cultural Keywords in Discourse, Levisen, Carsten and Sophia Waters (eds.), pp. 25–54 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the English word nice as a cultural keyword, around which sociality discourses revolve. Focusing on its semantic scope in Australian discourse, the keyword nice has an important story to tell about socially accepted and approved ways of thinking, communicating and behaving. read more
2015 Lige, a Danish ‘magic word’? An ethnopragmatic analysis Language and Cultural Values: Adventures in applied ethnolinguistics, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 244–268 | Article
The Danish word lige [ˈliːə] is a highly culture-specific discourse particle. English translations sometimes render it as “please,” but this kind of functional translation is motivated solely by the expectation that, in English, one has to ‘say please’. In the Danish universe of meaning, there is… read more