{"id":359,"date":"2010-04-02T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T09:37:27","slug":"handbook-of-pragmatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Handbook of pragmatics"},"content":{"rendered":"
Handbook of pragmatics: <\/strong>2008 installment. Ed. by Jan-Ola \u00d6stman<\/strong> and Jef Verschueren<\/strong>. (Handbook of pragmatics 12.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. Pp. 203. ISBN 9789027232571<\/a>. $165.<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Omaima Ayoub<\/strong>, Islamic Foundation School<\/em><\/p>\n

The handbook of pragmatics<\/em> serves the interdisciplinary nature of the field of pragmatics as a subdivision within language studies. This printed version of the online Handbook<\/em> of<\/em> pragmatics<\/em> comes in a loose-leaf format to facilitate flexibility and expandability for new articles and revised versions of older ones. It is divided into three sections: the \u2018User\u2019s guide\u2019, the \u2018Manual\u2019, and the handbook body.<\/p>\n

The \u2018User\u2019s guide\u2019 provides an inclusive index of all cross-references, and the \u2018Manual\u2019 includes a preface and a general introduction that present key information for the handbook authors and readers. The \u2018Manual\u2019 encompasses the major traditions that underlie the field of pragmatics, the major methods of research used in pragmatics inquiry, and the different kinds of notational systems used in the field. Urpo Nikanne<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Conceptual semantics\u2019 and Terhi Ainiala<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Socio-onomastics\u2019 are the two full-length papers from the \u2018Manual\u2019 included in this printed version. In \u2018Conceptual semantics\u2019, Nikanne illustrates the four features that define conceptual semantics as a part of generative linguistics: research objectives, background assumptions, methodological guidelines, and technical solutions. In <\/em>\u2018Socio-onomastics\u2019 <\/em>(i.e. sociolinguistic study of names), Ainiala examines the socio-onomastic research on Finnish place names.<\/p>\n

The main body of the handbook is comprised of articles that are organized alphabetically. Varying in length and focus, these articles present an up-to-date overview of different topics within the field of linguistic pragmatics. Only six full-length articles are provided in the printed version of the handbook.<\/p>\n

Martin Gill<\/strong>\u2019s article, \u2018Authenticity\u2019, explains the complex concept of authenticity within sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Li Wei<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Contact\u2019 <\/em>outlines the key causes, processes, and outcomes of language contact, discusses its theoretical and methodological approaches, and outlines its main issues within the field.<\/p>\n

Liesbet Quaeghebeur<\/strong>\u2019s contribution, \u2018Embodiment\u2019, draws on transcendental embodiment to discuss perception and cognition as different aspects of the embodiment hypothesis currently held in cognitive linguistics. Marjut Johansson<\/strong> and Eija <\/strong>Suomela-Salmi<\/strong>\u2019s article, \u2018Enonciation: French pragmatic approach(es)\u2019, traces the history of the French enunciation theory and surveys its traditions and the formulation of its main concepts. Finally, in \u2018Listener response\u2019 Deng Xudong<\/strong> depicts a wide range of research traditions used in the study of the conversational phenomenon of listener responses. Xudong\u2019s other article, \u2018Overlap\u2019, reviews a huge body of literature on the study of the conversational phenomenon of overlap.<\/p>\n

Overall, The handbook of pragmatics<\/em> is a valuable reference book for students and scholars of linguistics in general and sociolinguistics and pragmatics in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Handbook of pragmatics: 2008 installment. Ed. by Jan-Ola \u00d6stman and Jef Verschueren. (Handbook of pragmatics 12.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. Pp. 203. ISBN 9789027232571. $165. Reviewed by Omaima Ayoub, Islamic Foundation School The handbook of pragmatics serves the interdisciplinary nature of the field of pragmatics as a subdivision within language studies. This printed version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}