Capone, Alessandro
The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death
1. Introduction: Death, Dying and the
Vahid Parvaresh
Part I. Death and Society
2. Catholic Rituals of Death and Funeral Homily: A Socio-pragmatic Survey in Southern Italy
Elvira Assenza
3. Pragmeme(s) of Sympathy Cards in the Midwestern US
Richard W. Hallett
4. Panegyrists, Vagueness and the
Vahid Parvaresh
5. Grief Interactions Among Emerging Adults on College Campuses
Mary Alice Varga
6. Pre-funeral Condolence Visits as Pragmemes
Konosoang Sobane, Cyril Adonis
7. Socio-cultural Factors in Analyzing the Pragmeme of Accommodation: A Case Study of the Official Online Eulogy Request System in Taiwan
Wei-lun Lu
8. The Pragmeme of Accommodation in
Taiwo Oluwaseun Ehineni
9. Specifying Pragmemes: The Case of Expressing Condolences in Memorial Advertisements
Gregor Walczak
10. Stories of Grief and Loss: How College Students Learned to Listen
Barbara A. McDonald
Part II. Death Across Languages and Cultures
11.
Adrian Tien
12. English vs. Japanese Condolences: What People Say and Why
John C. Wakefield, Hiroko Itakura
13. On Death in Artificial Languages
Alan Reed Libert
14. Toward a Pragmatic Study of Funeral Discourses in Taiwan: Voice, Shared Situation Knowledge, and Metaphor
Ming-Yu Tseng
15. Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German
Philipp Hänggi, Catherine Diederich
16.
Ivana Moritz
17. Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Perspectives on the Emotional and Pragmatic Expression of Sympathy in Spanish and English
Jocelly G. Meiners
Part III. The Language of Death
18. ‘The Bad Death’: Deciphering and Developing the Dominant Discourse on ‘The Good Death’
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
19. Closing the Book of Life: The Hospice Discourse and the Construction of the Dying Role: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis
Leen Brussel, Nico Carpentier
20. Reclaiming Self by Working Through Loss: A Discourse Analysis of Psychotherapy Sessions
Joanna Pawelczyk
21. A Death in Late Victorian Dublin
Keith Allan
22. Gray’s ‘Elegy’: A Polyphonous Elegy Sung to the Silence of Death
Maria Grazia Dongu
23. The Fragile Nature of Human Glory: Death and Poetry in Thomas Gray’s
Dario Tomasello
24. Talking Death: An Analysis of Selected Entries in Frida Kahlo’s Diary
Roxana Delbene
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics
- Editor
- Capone, Alessandro
- Parvaresh, Vahid
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology
- Page amount
- 11 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319557595
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-55758-8