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Metapragmatic Pragmemes

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:00 authored by Vahid Parvaresh
This chapter examines metapragmatic disclaimers (e.g., ‘I know you might probably think that I’m rude, but’) from the perspective of socio-cultural pragmatics. Drawing on insight from Mey’s (Pragmatics. Blackwell, Oxford, 2001; Pragmatic acts. In: K Brown (ed) Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Elsevier, Oxford, 2006) pragmatic act theory, an approach that has its roots in the socio-cultural view of pragmatics, I argue that the notion of pragmeme can fruitfully be used by researchers when describing those utterances that address metapragmatic awareness on the part of the speaker. The examples used in this chapter are taken from a corpus of naturally-occurring Persian conversations, which further reveal how the notion of pragmeme can account for the creativeness one observes in the use of language in general and in the use of metapragmatic disclaimers in particular.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

9

Page range

521-535

Number of pages

910

Series

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

Publisher

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

Title of book

Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use

ISBN

978-3-319-43490-2

Editors

Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone, Istvan Kecskes

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2016-12-19

Legacy creation date

2016-11-28

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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