Bibliograph

Reflexive language, reported speech and metapragmatics, edited by John A. Lucy

Type

Label

Reflexive language, reported speech and metapragmatics, edited by John A. Lucy

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reflexive language

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

715166952

Responsibility statement

edited by John A. Lucy

Series statement

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

reported speech and metapragmatics

Summary

This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive aspect of natural language, its capacity to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language-use (metapragmatics). It adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach. Part I contains papers outlining the volume's theoretical scope. Parts II and III contain anthropological case studies which show the formal devices behind reflexive usage in a variety of different languages and how they function in cultural life. Finally, Part IV shows the importance of understanding reflexive language in many other areas of the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology and literary studies. Many of the contributors are senior scholars of international reputation: all are innovative researchers. Cumulatively their work here represents a critique of those researchers in the humanities and social sciences who fail to take language seriously both in the lives of those they study and in their own research practices.--, Provided by publisher

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