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Strategies of apologizing in Lombok Indonesia

This article investigates the use of different semantic formulas in apologizing in Lombok Indonesia in six different situations, varying in status and solidarity relationships between participants, based on discourse completion test data...

Keywords: politeness, pragmatics, apologizing, Indonesia

07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Relevance theory and politeness

The aim of this paper is to open up for debate the question of whether Sperber and Wilson's (1995 [1986]) relevance theory can usefully inform politeness research...

Keywords: Inferential communication, utterance interpretation, pragmatics, cognition, social context

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

How to mean without saying: Presupposition and implication revisited

This paper examines presupposition and implication from a semiotic perspective. It suggests that the conventional approaches to presupposition have a limited focus because of emphasis on truth-value, or the propositional level of the utterance...

Keywords: semiotics, Narrative, presupposition, pragmatics, meaning, reference

06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

A metaphor in search of a source domain: The categories of Slavic aspect

I propose that human experience of matter provides the source domain for the metaphor that motivates the grammatical category of aspect in Russian...

Keywords: aspect, metaphor, embodiment, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, Russian, Slavic languages