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Publication details [#54615]
Fetzer, Anita and Etsuko Oishi, eds. 2011. Context and Contexts. Parts meet whole? (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 209). John Benjamins. vii+239 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how both are influenced by context, how context influences speech acts and meaning, how context is imported into the discourse, and how context is entextualized in discourse. The papers cover institutional and non-institutional contexts, the language of Greek laws, political discourse, confrontational media discourse and task-oriented face-to-face and back-to-back interactions. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, adaptive action, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.
Articles in this volume
Moser, Amalia and Eleni Panaretou. Why a mother’s rule is not a law. The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws. 11–40
Jungbluth, Konstanze. This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad. 93–112
Fetzer, Anita. “Here is the difference, here is the passion, here is the chance to be part of great change”. Strategic context importation in political discourse. 115–146