Pragmatics

Volume 23, Issue 1 (2013)

2013. ca. 125 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Published online on 1 March 2013

Table of Contents

The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy Akin Adetunji	1–22
Indexing narrative metalepsis in German conversational story-telling: The case of “Von wegen”and “nach dem Motto” Jörg Bücker	23–49
Strategic use of nouns and pronouns in public discourse: The case of the fine-tuning of the medium of instruction policy in Hong Kong Victor Ho	51–67
Extending further and refining Prince’s taxonomy of given/new information: A case study of non-restrictive, relevance-oriented structures Rudy Loock	69–91
Speech play and language ideologies in Navajo terminology development Leighton C. Peterson and Anthony K. Webster	93–116
In between spectacle and political correctness: Vamos con todo – An ambivalent news/talk show María Elena Placencia and Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez	117–145
Connection and emotion: Extensive clause combining in contemporary Japanese fiction Satoko Suzuki	147–167
New technologies and language shifting in Vanuatu Leslie Vandeputte-Tavo	169–179

Subjects

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General