Pragmatics: An Introduction

By J. Mey. 2001

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Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction (2013, unknown): “…Haugh (2008) suggests in some cases we are dealing with what Rancière (1999) terms “misunderstanding on a deeper level (French: mésentente )” rather than “simple misunderstanding (French: malentendu , or méconnaissance , i.e. a wrong understanding, or even a lack of understanding)” (Mey 2001: 217).”
A Survey of Reinforcement Learning Informed by Natural Language (2019, background): “Using natural language requires common sense, world knowledge, and context to resolve ambiguity and cheaply encode information [ Mey, 1993 ] .”
Adversarial Language Games for Advanced Natural Language Intelligence (2019, background): “Such context-related interactions are believed to play a central role in natural language mastery in the theory of both linguistics (Mey and Xu, 2001) and philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, 1953; Lewis, 1969).”
The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context (2005, background): “…that the politics of security is discursively composed and that linguistic variables have concrete effects on the dynamics of world politics, but I disagree with the canonical view of security as a speech act which ‘becomes effective ex opere operato’ or ‘from the act being done’ (Mey, 2001: 215).”
Beyond the micro-level in politeness research (2005, background): “Put differently, the speaker's individual rationality is constrained on this occasion by a societal rationality which has pre-cast, so to speak, for him/her the universe of possibilities into a range of concrete choices (cf. Mey 1993: 263).”
A SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS OF TEACHER TALK IN AN EFL CLASSROOM (2017, background): “Mey (2001) pointed out that pragmatics is characterized by the idea that language is used by its user and the use of language depends on norms, rules and beliefs exist in the community”
Teaching and assessing L2 pragmatics: What can we expect from learners? (2008, methodology): “Speech act theory, in fact, provides a reliable and valid basis for examining pragmatic patterns that are primarily focused on selected utterances from the discourse (Mey 1993).”
Instructed pragmatics at a glance: Where instructional studies were, are, and should be going (2015, background): “…A G U C H I Unlike children, whose pragmatic and linguistic competences develop simultaneously, adult learners are already competent in the pragmatics of their native language, having developed a rich foundation of universal pragmatic knowledge and strategies within their native culture (Mey 2001).”
Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book for Students (2012, background): “…regarded as the first textbook of pragmatics, many introductory books of pragmatics have been written from different angles, with various foci, and aimed at a wide readership (Leech, 1983; Mey, 1993; Thomas, 1995; Grundy, 1995; Sperber & Wilson, 1995; Green, 1996; Verschueren, 1999; Huang, 2007).”