Discursive Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface to the series -- Acknowledgements -- Discursive pragmatics -- References -- Appraisal -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 2.1 Attitude - the activation of positive or negative positioning -- 2.1.1 Affect -- 2.1.2 Judgement -- 2.1.3 Appreciation -- 2.1.4 Modes of activation - direct and implied -- 2.1.5 Typological criteria -- 2.1.6 The interplay between the attitudinal modes -- 2.2 Intersubjective stance -- 3. Attitudinal assessment - a brief outline -- 3.1 Affect -- 3.2 Judgement -- 3.3 Appreciation -- 4. Engagement: An overview -- 4.1 Dialogic contraction and expansion -- 4.2 Further resources of dialogic expansion -- 4.2.1 Acknowledge -- 4.2.2 Entertain -- 4.3 Further resources of dialogic contraction -- 4.3.1 Pronounce -- 4.3.2 Concur -- 4.3.3 Disclaim (Deny and Counter) -- 4.3.4 Disclaim: Deny (negation) -- 4.3.5 Disclaim: Counter -- 4.4 Engagement resources - summary -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Cohesion and coherence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus on form: Cohesion -- 3. Cohesion as a condition for coherence -- 4. Focus on meaning: Connectivity -- 5. Semantic connectivity as a condition for coherence -- 6. Coherence: A general view -- 7. A hermeneutic, context and interpretation dependent view of coherence -- 8. Coherence as a default assumption -- 9. Perspectives -- References -- Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis -- 1. Definitions -- 2. Historical note -- 3. Principles of CL -- 4. Trends -- 4.1 Social Semiotics -- 4.2 Orders of discourse' and Foucauldian poststructuralism -- 4.3 The socio-cognitive model -- 4.4 Discourse-Historical Approach -- 4.5 Lexicometry -- 4.6 Lesarten" Approach -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Enonciation -- 1. Introduction.

2. Historical overview - from the pre-theoretical to the present phase -- 2.1 Origins and the pre-theoretical phase -- 2.2 First phase: Forerunners. -- 2.2.1 Charles Bally (1865-1947) -- 2.2.2 Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) -- 2.3 Second phase: Main theoretical foundation -- 2.3.1 Emile Benveniste (1902-1976) -- 2.4 Third phase: Modern developments -- 2.4.1 Antoine Culioli (born in 1924) -- 2.4.2 Oswald Ducrot (born in 1930) -- 2.4.3 Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (born in 1940) -- 3. Some basic notions -- 3.1 Enunciation and enunciator -- 3.2 Situation/Context -- 3.3 Subjectivity and deixis -- 3.4 Reported speech -- 3.5 Modality and modalization -- 3.6 Modalities of enunciation (modalités d'énonciation) -- 3.7 Utterance modalities (modalités d'énoncé) -- Figures of speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ancient rhetoric -- 3. Contemporary treatments of FSP -- 3.1 Definition of FSP -- 3.2 Classification of FSP -- 4. Across the lines of discipline: The cognitive and communicative role of FSP -- References -- Genre -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical precedents -- 3. Genre research in language studies -- 3.1 Sydney school -- 3.2 New Rhetoric -- 3.3 English for Specific Purposes -- 4. Issues and debates -- 4.1 Genre as class -- 4.2 Stability of genres -- References -- Internet sources -- Humor -- 1. Introduction and definition -- 2. Referential and verbal humor -- 3. Semantics -- 3.1 The isotopy-disjunction model -- 3.2 The script-based semantic theory of humor -- 3.3 Longer' texts -- 4. The cooperative principle and humor -- 4.1 Grice and Gricean analyses -- 4.2 Humor as non-bona-fide communication -- 4.3 Relevance-theoretic approaches to humor -- 4.4 Informativeness approach to jokes -- 4.5 Two-stage processing of humor -- 5. Conversation analysis -- 5.1 Canned jokes in conversation -- 5.1.1 Preface -- 5.1.2 Telling -- 5.1.3 Response -- 5.2 Conversational humor.

5.2.1 Functional conversational analyses -- 5.2.2 Quantitative conversational analyses -- 6. Sociolinguistics of humor -- 6.1 Gender differences -- 6.2 Ethnicity and humor -- 7. Computational humor -- 8. Cognitive linguistics and humor. -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Intertextuality -- 1. From 'literature' to 'text as a productivity which inserts itself into history' -- 2 Text linguistics on 'textuality' -- 3. Dialogism and heteroglossia in a social-diachronic theory of discourse -- 4. Vološinov, pragmatics and conversation analysis: Sequential implicativeness and the translation of the other's perspective -- 5. Synoptic and participatory views of human activity: Bakhtin, Bourdieu, sociolinguistic legitimacy (and the body) -- 6. Natural histories of discourse: Recontextualization/entextualization and textual ideologies -- References -- Manipulation -- 1. The ancient technique of rhetoric -- 2. The twentieth-century nightmare of 'thought control' -- 3. Manipulation is not inherent in language structure -- 4. So let's look at thought and social action -- 4.1 Drumming it in -- 4.2 Ideas that spread -- 5. What might override the cheat-checker? -- 6. Conclusion: Manipulation and counter-manipulation -- References -- Narrative -- 1. Narrative as a mode of communication -- 2. Referential properties -- 3. Textual properties -- 3.1 Narrative organization -- 3.2 Narrative evaluation -- 4. Contextual properties -- References -- Polyphony -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Polyphony in Bakhtin's work -- 3. Polyphony in Ducrot's work -- 4. The description of the polyphonic organization of discourse -- 5. The interrelations between polyphony and other dimensions of discourse structures -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Pragmatic markers -- 1. The tradition and the present state of research on pragmatic markers -- 2. Defining the field.

3. The terminology: Pragmatic marker or discourse marker? -- 4. Classification -- 5. Pragmatic markers and multifunctionality -- 6. Theoretical approaches to the study of pragmatic markers -- 7. Methodology -- 8. Pragmatic markers in the languages of the world -- 9. The diachronic study of pragmatic markers -- 10. The contrastive study of pragmatic markers -- 11. Pragmatic markers in translation studies -- 12. Pragmatic markers in native versus non-native speaker communication -- 13. Pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic aspects -- 14. Pragmatic markers and the future -- Public discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Multiple readings of 'publicness' -- 2. The situation-talk dialectic: 'public' as a feature of setting vs. 'public' as a feature of talk -- 2.1 Socio)linguistic markers of public discourse -- 2.2 Interaction-based approach -- 3. Goffman and the public order -- 4. Habermas and the public sphere -- 5. Transformation of the public sphere: Public discourse as mediated communication -- 5.1 The state's role in the conflation of public and private discourses in contemporary societies -- 5.2 Surveillance and control: Information exchange as a site of struggle -- 6. Pragmatic theories of information exchange and the public sphere: Towards a social pragmatics -- References -- Text and discourse linguistics -- 1. On terminology -- 2. Historical overview -- 3. Important fields of study -- 3.1 Information structure -- 3.2 Cohesion -- 3.3 Coherence -- 3.4 Grounding -- 3.5 Discourse types and genres -- 4. Other trends -- 5. Applications -- 5.1 Practical applications -- 5.2 Acquisitional and diachronic studies -- 6. Final remarks -- References -- Text linguistics -- 1. The rise of text linguistics -- 2. Some central issues -- References -- Index.