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Editorial Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 8.2 (2012): 155–156 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2012-0009 Being a “multifaceted and heterogeneous field”, pragmatics – as we are once again reminded in Foundations of Pragmatics exploring the foundations of the discipline – “is conceptualized best as a perspective, which comprises a general pragmatic perspective, a social perspective, a compositional perspective and a relational perspective” (Fetzer 2011: 25). Such a global perspective, whatever theories one takes as a point of investigative departure and whichever of the above orientations one adopts, aims to make it possible to capture the dynamics of language use and account for the complexity of its cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions. Indeed, a growing interest in all of the three dimensions and the interrelations between them has transformed the pragmatics landscape, bringing about new theoretical developments, methodological solutions, and widening the scope of practical applications. Cognitive approaches have explored the connections between human language and other kinds of human cognition, for example spatial cognition, while approaches based on social context have provided insights into language as a sociocultural construct. Attempts have been made to integrate various theoretical frameworks and methodological procedures, to explore new types of data, and to identify novel implications of research results http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

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Chilton, Paul; Kopytowska, Monika
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics , Volume 8 (2): 2 – Nov 1, 2012
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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 8.2 (2012): 155–156 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2012-0009 Being a “multifaceted and heterogeneous field”, pragmatics – as we are once again reminded in Foundations of Pragmatics exploring the foundations of the discipline – “is conceptualized best as a perspective, which comprises a general pragmatic perspective, a social perspective, a compositional perspective and a relational perspective” (Fetzer 2011: 25). Such a global perspective, whatever theories one takes as a point of investigative departure and whichever of the above orientations one adopts, aims to make it possible to capture the dynamics of language use and account for the complexity of its cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions. Indeed, a growing interest in all of the three dimensions and the interrelations between them has transformed the pragmatics landscape, bringing about new theoretical developments, methodological solutions, and widening the scope of practical applications. Cognitive approaches have explored the connections between human language and other kinds of human cognition, for example spatial cognition, while approaches based on social context have provided insights into language as a sociocultural construct. Attempts have been made to integrate various theoretical frameworks and methodological procedures, to explore new types of data, and to identify novel implications of research results

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