Pragmatics and Society

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2010)

2010. iv, 178pp

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 August 2010

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.1.1

Table of Contents

Editorial Jacob L. Mey, Hartmut Haberland and Kerstin Fischer	1–8
Articles
For a constitutive pragmatics: Obama, Médecins Sans Frontières and the measuring stick François Cooren and Frédérik Matte	9–31
Stability and variability in linguistic pragmatics Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.	32–49
The paradox of communication: Socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics István Kecskés	50–73
The activity type as interface between langue and parole, and between individual and society: An argument for trichotomy in pragmatics Gu Yueguo	74–101
School system as axiological medium: The state’s primary macro-proposing context and its expanding moral role in Australia Philip Graham and Lisa Gunders	102–117
Performance pragmatics, neuroscience and evolution William O. Beeman	118–137
Pragmatics of intercultural communication: The bounded openness of a contradictory perspective Dominique Bouchet	138–154
Forum and Debate	155
The pragmatics of learning by doing Roger C. Schank	157–172
Book review
Review of Abbas & Dervin (2009): Digital Technologies of the Self Reviewed by Lian-Hee Wee	173–177

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies