The pragmeme of accommodation : the case of interaction around the event of death /: the case of interaction around the event of death. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vahid Parvaresh, Alessandro Capone, editors.
• Editors: Capone, Alessandro
• Contents: Introduction : Death, dying and the pragmeme / Vahid Parvaresh -- Part I. Death and society -- Catholic rituals of death and funeral homily : a socio-pragmatic survey in southern Italy / Elvira Assenza -- Pragmeme(s) of sympathy cards in the midwestern US / Richard W. Hallett -- Panegyrists, vagueness and the pragmeme / Vahid Parvaresh -- Grief interactions among emerging adults on college campuses / Mary Alice Varga -- Pre-funeral condolence visits as pragmemes / Konosoang Sobane and Cyril Adonis -- Socio-cultural factors in analyzing the pragmeme of accommodation : a case study of the official online eulogy request system in Taiwan / Wei-lun Lu -- The pragmeme of accommodation in Yorùbá death events / Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni -- Specifying pragmemes : the case of expressing condolences in memorial advertisements / Gregor Walczak -- Stories of grief and loss : how college students learned to listen / Barbara A. McDonald -- Part II. Death across languages and cultures -- To be headed for the west, riding a crane : Chinese pragmemes in the wake of someone's passing / Adrian Tien -- English vs. Japanese condolences : what people say and why / John C. Wakefield and Hiroko Itakura -- On death in artificial languages / Alan Reed Libert -- Toward a pragmatic study of funeral discourses in Taiwan : voice, shared situation knowledge, and metaphor / Ming-Yu Tseng -- Accommodating language : a comparative investigation of the use of euphemisms for death and dying in obituaries in English and in German / Philipp Hänggi and Catherine Diederich -- Sacrificed, lost or gave life for their country : cognitive analysis of euphemisms for death in G.W. Bush and B. Obama's war speeches / Ivana Moritz -- Cross-cultural and interlanguage perspectives on the emotional and pragmatic expression of sympathy in Spanish and English / Jocelly G. Meiners -- Part III. The language of death -- 'The bad death' : deciphering and developing the dominant discourse on 'The good death' / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Closing the book of life : the hospice discourse and the construction of the dying role : a discourse-theoretical analysis / Leen Van Brussel and Nico Carpentier -- Reclaiming self by working through loss : a discourse analysis of psychotherapy sessions / Joanna Pawelczyk -- A death in late Victorian Dublin / Keith Allan -- Gray's 'Elegy' : a polyphonous elegy sung to the silence of death / Maria Grazia Dongu -- The fragile nature of human glory : death and poetry in Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a country churchyard / Dario Tomasello -- Talking death : an analysis of selected entries in Frida Kahlo's diary / Roxana Delbene.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 100; Philosophy; Death -- Social aspects; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Death in literature; Sociolinguistics; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Sociolinguistics; Death in literature; Death -- Social aspects; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- Pragmatics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Semantics & pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics_xPhilosophy; Pragmatics; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy of language; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319557595; 3319557599
• Related ISBNs: 9783319557588; 3319557580
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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