Elin McCready

Broschiertes Buch

Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification

Register and Social Meaning

Beschreibung

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, particularly from Japanese and Thai, and explores a wide range of related philosophical issues.

Autor

Elin McCready is Professor of Linguistics at Aoyama Gakuin University, where she also heads the Singularity Research Institute. Her main area of research is formal semantics and pragmatics, with secondary interests in epistemology, game theory, and feminist philosophy. Her work has been published in journals including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Journal of Pragmatics. She is the author of Reliability in Pragmatics (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond (with Katsuhiko Yabushita and Kei Yoshimoto; Springer, 2014) and Epistemology for the Rest of the World (with Stephen Stich and Masaharu Mizumoto; OUP, 2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9780198821373
• ISBN-10: 0198821379
• Artikelnr.: 56758236