The discourse of indirectness : cues, voices and functions /

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Imprint:Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.
©2020
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & Beyond new series, 0922-842X ; volume 316
Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 316.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456954
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Other authors / contributors:Livnat, Zohar, editor.
Shukrun-Nagar, Pnina, editor.
Hirsch, Galia, editor.
ISBN:9027260567
9789027260567
9789027207777
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from textual, contextual and intertextual meaning units. Emphasis is placed on the way in which indirectness serves the representation of diverse voices in the text, and this is examined through three main prisms: (1) the inferential view focuses on textual and contextual cues from which pragmatic indirect meanings might be inferred; (2) the dialogic-intertextual view focuses on dialogic and intertextual cues according to which different voices (social, ideological, literary etc.) are identified in the text; and (3) the functional view focuses on the pragmatic-rhetorical functions fulfilled by indirectness of both kinds"--
Other form:Print version: Discourse of indirectness. Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020 9789027207777