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| Resource type | Book Chapter |
| Title(s) | Synchronic and Diachronic Pragmatic Variability |
| DOI | 10.48548/pubdata-159 |
| Handle | 20.500.14123/179 |
| Creator | Barron, Anne  0000-0003-2962-7985 (Institute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  02w2y2t16) |
| Abstract | Pragmatic variability may be conceptualised on a vertical and horizontal axis, the former signifying diachronic pragmatic variation across time, the latter synchronic pragmatic variation at a particular point in time due to micro-social factors (e.g. social distance, social dominance, degree of imposition) and macro-social factors (e.g. region, gender, age, social class, ethnic identity). Both synchronic and diachronic variability share many theoretical concepts and methodological concerns. The present chapter sketches the concept of pragmatic variability and highlights the role played by situational context, stylistic constraints and macro-social parameters in pragmatic analyses. Following this, the research landscape on pragmatic variability is examined and research approaches to intralingual synchronic and diachronic pragmatic variation discussed, with particular reference made to variational pragmatics and historical pragmatics. The need for comparable data and the challenges this poses in pragmatic analyses, irrespective of research framework, is then taken up in the context of a case study on present day synchronic variation in offer realisations situated in variational pragmatics. There, data types and the possible applicability of the concept of the pragmatic variable for pragmatic work is discussed, as are the opportunities to be gained from combining synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The paper concludes with a critical summary identifying current trends and suggestions for future research on pragmatic variability. |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Pragmatic Variation; Social Variables; Diachronic; Synchronic; Variational Pragmatics |
| Year of publication in PubData | 2024 |
| Publishing type | Parallel publication |
| Publication version | Published version |
| Date issued | 2021-04-01 |
| Creation context | Research |
| Published by | Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |
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| Field | Value |
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| Resource type | Book |
| Title of the resource type | The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics |
| Identifier | DOI: 10.1017/9781108954105.011 |
| Publication year | 2021 |
| Pages | 182 - 205 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
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