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Review Discursive pragmatics (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, Vol. 8) Reviewed by Bahram Kazemian, Islamic Azad University This invaluable book is the 8th volume of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, concentrating on the most salient topics in the realm of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (DA). It begins with an up-to-date synopsis of its field of interest, bringing together an anthology of 15 entries and seminal overviews and studies by the most distinguished scholars, such as White, Chilton, Wodak, Östman, Sarangi and others. It addresses many interdisciplinary and discursive topics, theories and perspectives in rhetoric, cognitive linguistics, semantics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, communication studies, philosophy and literature. The first chapter in the volume is by Peter R.R. White, entitled "Appraisal" which is a theory of evaluative language; it elaborates on the types of language employed in communicating emotions and opinions which is initiated in the context and principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as proposed by Halliday. It classifies numerous functions that various linguistic structures, such as verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns, might perform. It depicts how authors exploit language to communicate their engagement with other writers, and to amplify, relegate or even diminish the sturdiness of their outlooks and involvements. Concentrating on http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

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Kazemian, Bahram
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics , Volume 12 (1) – Jun 1, 2016
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Discursive pragmatics (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, Vol. 8) Reviewed by Bahram Kazemian, Islamic Azad University This invaluable book is the 8th volume of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, concentrating on the most salient topics in the realm of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (DA). It begins with an up-to-date synopsis of its field of interest, bringing together an anthology of 15 entries and seminal overviews and studies by the most distinguished scholars, such as White, Chilton, Wodak, Östman, Sarangi and others. It addresses many interdisciplinary and discursive topics, theories and perspectives in rhetoric, cognitive linguistics, semantics, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, communication studies, philosophy and literature. The first chapter in the volume is by Peter R.R. White, entitled "Appraisal" which is a theory of evaluative language; it elaborates on the types of language employed in communicating emotions and opinions which is initiated in the context and principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as proposed by Halliday. It classifies numerous functions that various linguistic structures, such as verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns, might perform. It depicts how authors exploit language to communicate their engagement with other writers, and to amplify, relegate or even diminish the sturdiness of their outlooks and involvements. Concentrating on

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2016

References

  • Nominalizations in scientific and political genres: A systemic functional linguistics perspective