Interactive and Interpersonal Meanings of Grammatical Structures

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• PART I Theoretical prerequisites
• Chapter 1 Setting the ground: selected issues in the classical speech act theory
• 1.0 Introduction
• 1.1 Speech acts – Austin’s basic insights
• 1.2 Searle’s approach to speech acts
• 1.3 Selected controversies in speech act theory
• 1.3.1 Illocutionary force and meaning – fundamentally different or basically alike?
• 1.3.2 Understanding an utterance’s illocutionary force: decoding or inference?
• 1.4 Summary and conclusions
• Chapter 2 Approaches to the problem of the interactive and interpersonal value of utterances
• 2.0 Introduction
• 2.1 Selected approaches to linguistics politeness
• 2.1.1 Brown and Levinson’s model (1987 [1978])
• 2.1.2 Leech’s model (1983 and 2014)
• 2.2 Selected approaches to linguistic impoliteness
• 2.2.1 Culpeper’s model (1996)
• 2.2.2 Bousfield’s model (2008)
• 2.3 A discussion of the models of linguistic politeness and impoliteness under consideration
• 2.4 Intersubjectivity
• 2.5 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 3 Cognitive approaches to issues in speech act theory
• 3.0 Introduction
• 3.1 Speech acts as conceptual categories
• 3.2 Force dynamics in the understanding of directive speech acts
• 3.3 The relation between an utterance’s illocutionary force and its grammatical structure – selected cognitive approaches
• 3.3.1 The Obstacle Hypothesis (Gibbs 1986)
• 3.3.2 Panther and Thornburg’s model of metonymic inferencing in indirect speech acts
• 3.3.3 The role of propositional ICMs in indirect speech acts (Pérez Hernández and Ruiz de Mendoza 2002; Pérez Hernández 2013)
• 3.3.4 The role of the hearer in the directive scenario (Chybowska 2005a and b)
• 3.3.5 A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts (Stefanowitsch 2003)24
• 3.3.6 Takahashi’s analysis of the meaning of the English imperative (2012)
• 3.4 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4 The theoretical framework
• 4.0 Introduction
• 4.1 Cognitive grammar – the general theoretical landscape
• 4.2 Cognitive grammar as a usage-based approach to language
• 4.3 Cognitive grammar’s views on the nature of linguistic meaning
• 4.3.1 Encyclopedic nature of meaning
• 4.3.2 Conceptualist and imagistic nature of meaning
• 4.4 Cognitive grammar and speech acts
• 4.4.1 Meaning and illocutionary force
• 4.4.2 Interactive frames
• 4.4.3 Grounding
• 4.4.4 The machinery at work
• 4.5 Cognitive grammar and the relevance-theoretic pragmatic theorizing
• 4.6 Concluding remarks
• PART II Analysis
• Chapter 5 The imperative constructions – a semantic and pragmatic characterization of their main components
• 5.0 Introduction
• 5.1 The imperative – basic grammatical facts
• 5.2 Perfective and imperfective imperatives33
• 5.2.1 Perfective and imperfective imperatives in context-situated spoken colloquial discourse
• 5.2.2 A study of corpus examples34
• 5.2.3 The proposed analysis36
• 5.2.4 How the proposed analysis relates to alternative accounts37
• 5.3 Distance maintenance and distance reduction in imperative constructions
• 5.3.1 A note on distance-regulating structures in Polish
• 5.3.2 A characterizaton of the notion of pragmatic distance
• 5.3.3 A note on standard uses of distance-regulating structures in Polish
• 5.3.4 Distance-regulating structures as a means of negotiating the speaker-hearer interpersonal distance
• 5.4 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 6 Directive infinitives
• 6.0 Introduction
• 6.1 The grammatical and conceptual make-up of the (Proszę1 sg. non-past indicat.) + Vinf. constructions
• 6.2 An overview of typical uses of the directive infinitive constructions
• 6.3 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 7 An analysis of pragmatic effects of selected “special” variants of direct directive constructions: a construction’s grammatical make-up and context in collaboration
• 7.0 Introduction
• 7.1 The V2sg. imp. construction
• 7.1.1 The V2 sg. imperf. imp. midat. (‘me’) construction
• 7.1.2 The Panie Xvoc. ‘Mr X’, V2 sg. imperf. imp. construction
• 7.2 The distance-maintaining imperative construction
• 7.3 The directive infinitive construction
• 7.4 Concluding remarks
• Chapter 8 Conclusions
• 8.0 Introduction
• 8.1 Summary of the analysis
• 8.2 Some general observations and conclusions
• 8.3 Some venues for future research
• 8.4 The final note
• References
• Index of Names
• Series index