The discourse of indirectness : cues, voices and functions

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Title
"The discourse of indirectness : cues, voices and functions"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar, Galia Hirsch
Publisher
  • John Benjamins
Publication Year
  • c2020
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hb

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from textual, contextual and intertextual meaning units. Emphasis is placed on the way in which indirectness serves the representation of diverse voices in the text, and this is examined through three main prisms: (1) the inferential view focuses on textual and contextual cues from which pragmatic indirect meanings might be inferred; (2) the dialogic-intertextual view focuses on dialogic and intertextual cues according to which different voices (social, ideological, literary etc.) are identified in the text; and (3) the functional view focuses on the pragmatic-rhetorical functions fulfilled by indirectness of both kinds"-- Provided by publisher

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