Grzega, Joachim
Studies in Europragmatics

Some Theoretical Foundations and Practical Implications.

This volume deals with the search for commonalities of European languages with respect to the use of word-forms, i.e. pragmalinguistic aspects, and includes numerous case studies related to synchronic, historical and applied europragmatics. The book addresses basic general definitory questions (e.g. what is "European", what is "Eurolinguistic"?), it discusses and creates methodological approaches of qualitative and quantitative research, it compares working with naturally gathered (spoken and written) language data (e.g. Wikipedia, EU minutes, Facebook) and working with language data artificially elicited by questionnaires, and it makes suggestions on how the results of analyses on speech-acts, address terms, word-connotations and other communicative patterns could be interpreted. Results are trasferred into numerous figures (among them the map of the flight of the Europragmatic bumblebee, showing the distribution of 36 Europragmatic features). IX,176 Seiten mit 86 Abb. und Tab., broschiert (Eurolinguistische Arbeiten; Band 7/Harrassowitz Verlag 2013)