The Pragmatics of Adaptability: 319 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027208328 ISBN 13: 9789027208323

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2021

Synopsis

Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and principled human adaptability in interaction, form, and meaning. Working on different strands of such a socially oriented pragmatics, the authors gathered in this volume study the adaptability of language as shaped by the conditions of society, culture, and cognition. Grouped in four sections, the book’s chapters explore the embedding of adaptability in language ideology, text, communicative practice, and learning. Adopting these various perspectives, the authors gauge how language users navigate the different layers of societal, cognitive, and communicative constraints, while adapting their communicative practices, language ideologies, and technologies of interaction to their everyday living conditions.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027208328
• ISBN 13: 9789027208323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Silva N. Daniel, Mey Jacob L.