Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] ; 27
Número de páginas: 346 págs.
Fecha de edición: 18-07-2022
EAN: 9783110787580
ISBN: 978-3-11-078758-0
Precio (sin IVA): 159,45 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 165,83 €
With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust – a complete rejection by some – of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values, is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of pragmatics, he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP), contending that language use can be adequately, coherently, and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied and dynamic contexts.