Publications
Chosen filters:
Chosen filters:
Discursive pragmatics: a platform for the pragmatic study of discourse Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This introduction to the edited volume 'Discursive pragmatics' traces a pragmatic turn in discourse studies focussing on issues as varied as appraisal, cohesion, coherence, critical linguistics, CDA, enunciation theory, rhetoric, genre studies, humor, intertextuality, manipulation, narrative, polyphony, pragmatic markers, public discourse and text linguistics. Zienkowski identifies a pragmatic turn that involves an increasing focus on the ...
Discursive pragmatics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or interactional angles, this 8th volume focuses on theories and phenomena at the level of discourse, but leaving aside conversational ...
The theory of pragmatics sub specie Russian Avant Garde Ghent University
Política y prensa tribales, contextos plurales? Estudio pragmático del discurso periodístico en la crisis poselectoral de Kenia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
En este artículo se estudia desde una perspectiva lingüístico-pragmática la construcción de significados potencialmente ideológicos en relación con las prácticas de selección en contextos de periodismo nacional e internacional. Más en concreto, se analiza el discurso en noticias concretas sobre la crisis poselectoral en Kenia en periódicos nacionales como Daily Nation y The Standard, en comparación con noticias temáticamente relacionadas en The ...
Ciências humanas e a esfera pública: uma perspectiva pragmática University of Antwerp
Este artigo parte das observações de que (i) todo uso de linguagem combina, inevitavelmente, significado explícito e implícito e (ii) todas as línguas têm meios estruturais à sua disposição para marcar significado implícito. Isso parece uma espécie de paradoxo pragmático: se é possível falar sobre “marcadores de implicatura” (um nome geral para todas as construções tradicionais portadoras de pressupostos e implicações, assim como de estratégias ...
Contrastive pragmatics University of Antwerp
The pragmatics of the past : a novel typology of conditionals with past tenses in Ancient Greek Ghent University
This article argues for a typology of conditionals in Ancient Greek based on pragmatic rather than formal (e.g., mood) or semantic (e.g., temporal reference) criteria. It does so by proposing a novel pragmatic typology of conditionals with past tenses for Archaic and Classical Greek based on a corpus analysis of 973 conditionals. This article distinguishes 6 different pragmatic usages which generalise over mood and temporal variations: ...