The Pragmatics of Commitment

ISBN-13: 9783034346726 / Angielski

Marie-José Béguelin; Alain Berrendonner; Didier Maillat

Opis

This book puts forward a pragmatic and cognitive model of the linguistic notion of commitment in communication. After a detailed review of the existing literature, it proposes a new model based on the relevance-theoretic notion of strength, which is later experimentally tested.

Spis treści

Table of contents - Kira Boulat - Enunciation Theory and Linguistic Polyphony - Speech Act Theory-Studies on dialogue and argumentation -Relevance Theory-Commitment in linguistics: a summary -Modelling commitment -Theoretical predictions of the model -Experimental pragmatics and memory tasks -Three experimental studies -General discussion - Conclusion

O autorze

Kira Boulat holds a PhD in English linguistics from Fribourg University (Switzerland), which she partly wrote in the experimental laboratory of pragmatics in Cambridge (UK). Her research interests include cognitive and experimental pragmatics, as well as psycholinguistics.