Haugh Michael, Kádár Dániel Z., Terkourafi Marina (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 797 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). — ISBN 9781108844963, 9781108954105, 9781108949309.The Genesis of the Present Handbook
The Scope of Sociopragmatics
Overview
Closing ThoughtsFundamentals of Sociopragmatics
Sociopragmatics (Roots and Definition) - CulpeperPositioning Sociopragmatics in Pragmatics
Sociopragmatics: Foundations
Austin: A Precursor?
Sociopragmatics and Pragmalinguistics
Sociopragmatics and ContextInference and Implicature - TerkourafiKey Concepts and Theories: Definitional Issues
Inference in a Broad and in a Narrow Sense
Inference versus Implicature
Inference and Implicature as Process and Product
Matters of Process
Critical Overview and Future DirectionsSpeaker Meaning, Commitment and Accountability - ElderKey Issues and Theories
Grice’s ‘Speaker Meaning’
Communication As Inferential
Commitment-Based Communication
Interactional Achievement and Accountability
Combining Eclectic Perspectives on Speaker Meaning, Commitment and Accountability
Case Studies
Case Study I: Ascribing Speaker Meanings to Hinting Utterances
Case Study II: Manipulating Implicatures in Political DiscourseSocial Actions - DeppermannApproaches to the Study of Social Action
Social Action Formats
The Relevance of Contextual Orders to Action-Formation and Action-Ascription
Sequentiality in Action-Formation and Action-Ascription
Activity Types, Deontics, Epistemics and Common Ground as Contexts for Actions
Action-Ascription, Responses and IntentionsStance and Evaluation - Siromaa & RauniomaaA Dialogic and Reflexive Take on Stance in Interaction
From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices
Stance and Evaluation Research within Sociolinguistics
Stance and Evaluation in Storytelling: The Case of the Sagging FaceReflexivity and Meta-awareness - VerschuerenMetalinguistic Activity Types
Talk about Linguistic Forms and Utterances
Talk about Language(s)
Quoted and Reported Speech
Self-Reflexive Speech
Indicators of Reflexive Awareness
Indexical Forms or ‘Shifters’
Contextual Adjustment and Contextualization (Cues)
The Interactional Role of Metapragmatic Awareness
The Significance of Cross-Linguistic Variability
Methodological ChallengesParticipation and Footing - Holt & O'DriscollKey Concepts and Issues: A Scalar Approach
Utterance
Producing Utterances
Receiving Utterances
Talk
Producing Talk
Receiving Talk
Producing and Receiving Together
Events
Social Roles
Peripheral Participation
Interaction – with a Fuzzy Focus
Technology-Mediated Communication
Conclusion: Future DirectionsConventionalization and Conventions - Kádár & HouseThe Pragmatic Complexity of Conventions
Facets of Language Use with Complex Implications forConvention and Practice
Conventions, Practices and Time
Conventions, Practices and Pragmatic Units
Conventions, Practices and Intercultural Pragmatics
Conventions and Language Acquisition and Socialization
Conventions and Rituals
Further DirectionsSynchronic and Diachronic Pragmatic Variability - BarronKey Theoretical Approaches
Intralingual Synchronic Pragmatic Variation
Intralingual Diachronic Pragmatic Variation
Critical Overview of Research through Case Study
Pragmatic Variable – What Is Equivalence?
Methodologies: Data Type
Interaction of Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Summary and Future DirectionsActivity Types and Genres - Archer, Jagodziński & JagodzińskiKey Concepts and Theories
The Concept of Activity Type, Its Origins and Its Use in Pragmatics
The Concept of Genre, Its Origins and Its Use in Pragmatics
Activity Type and Genre: Similarities and Differences with Each Other
Activity Type and Genre: Similarities and Differences with Other Concepts
Critical Overview through Two Case Studies
Culpeper and McIntyre (2010)
Tardy and Swales (2014)
Summary and Future DirectionsSocial Groups and Relational Networks - Boxer & Cortés-CondeKey Concepts and Theories
Social Groupings and Identity
Sociopragmatics, Linguistic Ethnography and Interactional Sociolinguistics
From the Speech Community, to the Social Network, to Communities of Practice
Politeness and Relational Networks
Overview of Research: Case Studies
Social Groups and Relational Networks in Online Communities
Summary and Future DirectionsTopics and Settings in Sociopragmatics
Face, Facework and Face-Threatening Acts - Sifianou & TzanneKey Concepts and Theories
The Concept of ‘Face’
The Concept of ‘Face-Threatening Act’ (FTA)
The Concept of ‘Facework’
Developments in the Conceptualization of ‘Face’
Finer Distinctions and Alternatives
Return to the Goffmanian Concept of Face
Distinction between Face1 and Face2
Disentangling Face from Politeness
Concluding Remarks and Future DirectionsRelationships and Relating - ArundaleConceptual Frameworks in Research on Relationships and Relating
Comparing Models and Theories of the Sociopragmatics of Relationships and Relating
Conceptualizations of Relationships and Relating in Inquiry and in PracticeAnalysing Identity - Blitvich & GeorgakopoulouIdentities-in-Interaction
Identity in Sociopragmatics
Identity and Face in Im/politeness Research
Summary and Avenues for Further Research
Identities in Pragmalinguistic Approaches
Other Directions for Research(Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics - Culpeper & HaughThe Fundamental Connections between (Im)politeness and Sociopragmatics
A Brief History of (Im)politeness Theories
Foundational Sociopragmatic Concepts in (Im)politeness Research
Context
Strategies
Indirectness
Norms
Case Study: User and Observer Perspectives in (Im)politeness Research
Future DirectionsAffect and Emotion - Alba-JuezKey Concepts and Main Approaches to Affect and Emotion
A Sociopragmatic Approach to Emotion
Stancetaking and Emotion
Emotion and (Im)politeness
Humour, Irony and Emotion
A Sociopragmatic Case Study of Oral Narrative: Oprah Winfrey’s Happiest Christmas
Narrative and Emotion
A Case Study
Summary and Future Directions
Transcription ConventionsPower - LeezenbergConcepts of Power in Linguistic and Social Theory
Positioning Power: The Linguistic and the Social
Power, Authority and Speech Acts
A Case Study: Power and Pornography
Politeness, Impoliteness and PowerMorality in Sociopragmatics - Blitvich & KádárAn Overview of the Moral Order and Morality
The Moral Order
Morality
Morality and the Moral Order
The Interface of Im/morality and Im/politeness
Case Study
Discussion and Future DirectionsConversational Humour - Dynel & SinkeviciuteKey Concepts and Theories
Categories of Conversational Humour
Concepts and Approaches
Sources of Data
Sociopragmatic Variables
Functions of Humour
Case Study: Teasing among Speakers of Australian English and Its Local Functions
Summary and Future DirectionsGesture and Prosody in Multimodal Communication - Brown & PrietoKey Concepts and Theories
Gesture
Prosody
Other Multimodal Resources
Critical Overview of Research
Information Status
Phrase Structure, Discourse Structure and Turn-Taking
Epistemic Stance
(Im)politeness
Irony
Speaker Identity
Overview
Summary and Future DirectionsDigitally Mediated Communication - Xie & YusSociopragmatics, Ethnography and Data Gathering on the Internet
Digital Communication and Research Interests for Sociopragmatics
Discourse Used in Digital Communication
Digitally Mediated Interactions
The Social Side of Internet Communication
Future DirectionsWorkplace and Institutional Discourse - Marra & DawsonKey Theoretical Issues
Institutional Talk versus Workplace Discourse
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Speech Acts
(Im)politeness in the Workplace
Community of Practice
Critical Overview of Research through Case Studies
Case Studies of Disagreement
Social Impact of Workplace Research
Summary and Future DirectionsService Encounter Discourse - Félix-Brasdefer & ReiterKey Elements of Service Encounters
Towards a Multidisciplinary Understanding of Service Encounters
On the Dichotomy between Interpersonal and Transactional Talk
Contexts of Service Encounters
Small Shops
Cafés and Bars
Call Centres: Service Encounters over the Telephone
Globalization and Sociopragmatic Variation
Computer-Mediated Discourse: Online Service Encounters in a Global World
Methodological ConsiderationsArgumentative, Political and Legal Discourse - Fetzer & Witczak-PlisieckaThe Pragmatics of Argumentative Discourse
Political Discourse as Communicative Action
Legal DiscourseData SourcesThe Pragmatics of Translation - House
Introduction: How Context Is Viewed in Different Disciplines
Overview of Linguistic Approaches to Translation
Early Linguistic, Textual and Communicative Approaches
Discourse, Pragmatic and Functional Approaches to Translation
Defining Translation as Re-contextualization
Functional Equivalence in Re-contextualization
Overt and Covert Translation
The “Cultural Filter” and Contrastive Pragmatics
Translation as Re-contextualization and English as a Lingua FrancaApproaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics
Interpersonal Pragmatics - Locher & GrahamHistory and Key Concepts in Interpersonal Pragmatics
Interpersonal Pragmatics in Health Contexts
The Hospitalk Project
An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach
A Critical Discourse Approach
A Multimodal Approach
An Ethnographic Approach
Challenges and OpportunitiesSociocognitive Pragmatics - KecskesThe Idealized View of Communication in Pragmatics
Communication in the Sociocognitive Approach
Intention and Salience
Types of Intention
Linguistic Salience: Inter-label Hierarchy and Intralabel Hierarchy
Shaping Speaker’s Utterance
Contextual Effects on Meaning
Common Ground
What Is Common Ground in SCA?
Nature and Dynamism of Common Ground
Summary and Future ResearchConversation Analysis and Sociopragmatics - Clift & HaughThe Fundamentals of CA Method: Transcription and Collections
Transcription
Collections
External versus Internal Evidence in Collections
CA-Grounded Sociopragmatics
Case Study 1: Social Action and Indirectness
Case Study 2: Inference and IdentityAppendix: Key CA Transcription ConventionsCorpus Pragmatics - Adolphs & ChenCorpus Methods and Pragmatic Analysis
Research in Corpus Pragmatics
Issues in Corpus Pragmatics
Multimodal Corpus Pragmatics: A Case Study of (Do) You Know/See What I Mean
Coding the Data
Coding Speech Function Based on Co-text
Demarcating Gesture Phases
Interrater Reliability Test
Data Analysis: Identifying Gesture Patterns in Each Speech Function
The Functional Speech–Gesture Profile for ‘(Do) You Know/See What I Mean’Variational Pragmatics - SchneiderThe Original Framework
The Variational Component: Macro-social Factors
The Pragmatic Component: Levels of Analysis
Modifying the Framework
Modifying the Variational Component
Modifying the Pragmatic Component
Theoretical Issues
Methodological Issues
Three Methodological Principles
Data Types and Data Collection
Research in Variational Pragmatics
ConclusionsHistorical Sociopragmatics - Leitner & JuckerKey Concepts in Historical Sociopragmatics
The Discursive Turn in Historical Sociopragmatics
Theoretical Background
Case Study
Recent TrendsSourcesEmancipatory Pragmatics - Saft, Ide & UenoExamples of EP Research Findings
Politeness
Turn-Taking and Overlap
EP and Theory
Ba Theory
Ba Theory and English
Future DirectionsCross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics - McConachy & Spencer-OateyKey Concepts
Culture
Context
Etic and Emic Research Perspectives
Summary of Main Research Findings
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Main Perspectives and Studies
Intercultural Pragmatics: Main Perspectives and Studies
(Socio)cognitive Perspectives
Interactional and Interpersonal Perspectives
Critical Perspectives
Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges
Promising AreasSecond Language Pragmatics - Ifantidou(Socio)pragmatic Competence
From Sociopragmatics of Use to Sociopragmatics of Development
Pragmatic Inference within Second Language Pragmatics (SLP)
Case Study: Metaphor Comprehension in Second Language Pragmatics
Implications for Future Research