Jef Verschueren
Biographic Data
| ID | 75154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jef Verschueren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jef |
| FAMILY NAME | Verschueren |
| SIGNATURE | VERSCHUEREN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4120-9068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Handbook of Pragmatics
The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains all topical articles. The first edition of the Manual was published in 1995. This second edition includes a large number of new traditions and methods…
Indexical ‘mismatch’; or, adaptability at work
This epilogue reflects on the notions of ‘irregularity’ and ‘mismatch’ which form the leitmotiv for this issue on perspectivization in language use, and more specifically on perspective shift and perspective persistence. While endorsing the approach, it is suggested that, given the complexities involved (who orients to what aspects of context and how?) any stable form-function coding would probably fail to perform the communicative task at hand, …
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use
Against the background of a general theory of pragmatics, reflections are formulated on the central role of metapragmatic awareness as a specific manifestation of salience, the status of processes of meaning generation in language use in relation to the cognitive apparatus. First the notions of metalanguage and metapragmatics, as used in linguistics, are discussed. Then metalinguistic and metapragmatic phenomena are presented as reflections of me…
Handbook of Pragmatics
Language on language
Research goal 2. Methodology 2.1. 0perational criteria 2.I.7. Preliminary screeninq criteria 2.1.2. The basic conceptual criterion 2.2. Research procedure 3. Data analysis and co.rclusions 3.1. Observations 3.1.1. The structure of the set of BLAVs 3.1.2. The nunber of BLAVs 3.1.3. The order of development 3.1.4. Universali"ty 3.2. Universal tendencies 3.3. Implications
A touch of class
This paper describes how political discourse, as manifested in the policy statements of two Flemish political parties which assign to themselves the epithet ‘social’, contributes to the erasion of group-based or class- related forms of social inequality. A brief comparison with the academic defense of ‘Third Way’ politics (in the work of Anthony Giddens) leads to the suggestion that we are witnessing a hegemonic process
Handbook of Pragmatics
Diversity, Linguistic
This entry starts out with a discussion, in very broad strokes, of the evolutionary basis of linguistic diversity. What follows is an overview of the many ways in which languages differ and a description of how diversity relates to space and time. The argument is made that even though diversity is not unrestricted, true universals are few and far between. Then the way in which linguists cope with diversity (with terms such as superdiversity or tr…
Humanities and the public sphere
This article starts from the observation of current changes in the nature of a globalizing public sphere for which older structural boundaries have lost much of their relevance. Though the public sphere has traditionally been a topic for social scientists (and philosophers), a redefinition in terms of the realm of publicly accessible meaning, and of struggles over socially and politically important meaning, necessitates a contribution from the hu…
Pragmatics, Linguistic
The role of language in European nationalist ideologies
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Argumentation in discourse and grammar
This chapter explores the intersection of argumentation theory and discourse analysis, examining how argumentation structures are manifested in grammar and discourse. It argues that argumentation is not merely a rhetorical device but a fundamental aspect of language use, shaping how we construct meaning and interact with others. The authors analyze various discourse phenomena, including connectives, modality, and evidentials, demonstrating how th…
The Lexicalization of Linguistic Action
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 328-335
An Alternative to Prototype Rules
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 386-395
Ethnography of Communication and History
This article shows that an ethnography of communication approach is not only relevant to an understanding of how ways of speaking and language codes define the social-group boundaries of specific speech communities, but (1) that it can be equally pertinent to the analysis of the ideologies and language use of certain communities of practice, and (2) that it can be used to trace historical developments in such communities of practice intertextuall…
Pragmatics in practice
Discourse analysis, culture, and critique
Society and language use
Multilingual structures and agencies
The pragmatics of interaction
Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in wh…
Culture and language use
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this second volume reviews basic topics and traditions that place language use in its cultural context. As emphasized in the …
Intercultural Communication and the Challenges of Migration1
This paper discusses some basic properties of intercultural communication (treated from the point of view of linguistic pragmatics as fundamentally similar to any other form of communication, and emphasising the need to move radically away from any essentialist substantiation of ‘culture’) against the background of contexts of migration. Three fields of tension are distinguished in the way in which meanings are generated under (predominantly inst…
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use
Against the background of a general theory of pragmatics, reflections are formulated on the central role of metapragmatic awareness as a specific manifestation of salience, the status of processes of meaning generation in language use in relation to the cognitive apparatus. First the notions of metalanguage and metapragmatics, as used in linguistics, are discussed. Then metalinguistic and metapragmatic phenomena are presented as reflections of me…
Handbook of Pragmatics
The role of language in European nationalist ideologies
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Language - the loaded weapon
Predicaments of Criticism
In this article, some of the pitfalls of critical analyses in socially relevant forms of linguistic research or discourse analysis are spelled out. Though the point of reference is Norman Fairclough's version of critical discourse analysis, the observations can easily be extended to various related types of work. The argument is made that, in order for critical studies of discourse to be convincing - and hence to have any impact at all - the meth…
What People Say They Do with Words
Intercultural Communication and the Challenges of Migration1
This paper discusses some basic properties of intercultural communication (treated from the point of view of linguistic pragmatics as fundamentally similar to any other form of communication, and emphasising the need to move radically away from any essentialist substantiation of ‘culture’) against the background of contexts of migration. Three fields of tension are distinguished in the way in which meanings are generated under (predominantly inst…
The pragmatics of minority politics in Belgium
Newspaper reports, political policy papers, and investigations by social scientists concerning issues related to the presence of a community of migrant workers in Belgium are subjected to a systematic, pragmatic analysis. The analysis reveals an eminently coherent world of beliefs and attitudes with respect to (1) perceptions of the "other," (2) the self-perception of majority members, (3) formulations of "the problem," and (4) proposed solutions…
Discourse and Critique
Multilingual structures and agencies
The rhetoric of tolerance or, what police officers are taught about migrants1
(1993). The rhetoric of tolerance or, what police officers are taught about migrants. Journal of Intercultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 49-63
On Bogusławski on promise
The Pragmatic Return to Meaning
This article inquires into the role of meaning in linguistic pragmatics (conceived in its widest interdisciplinary sense as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication). With reference to earlier discussions of the relationship between meaning and intention, especially in the anthropological linguistic literature, two case studies are adduced in order to further demonstrate the need to allow for types of meaning wh…
Principles of pragmatics
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Reflections on presupposition failure
Whose discipline? Some critical reflections on linguistic pragmatics
Linguistic pragmatics and semiotics
L'A. prend les racines semiotiques de la pragmatique, et en particulier les vues exprimees par Morris (1938), comme point de depart pour montrer combien une perspective semiotique generale peut fournir le type de coherence dont a tant besoin le champ de la pragmatique linguistique
Linguistics and crosscultural communication (Review article)
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The analysis of speech act verbs
Ethnography of Communication and History
This article shows that an ethnography of communication approach is not only relevant to an understanding of how ways of speaking and language codes define the social-group boundaries of specific speech communities, but (1) that it can be equally pertinent to the analysis of the ideologies and language use of certain communities of practice, and (2) that it can be used to trace historical developments in such communities of practice intertextuall…
Contrastive ideology research
Problems of lexical semantics
Speech Act Classification
I Classification.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Lexical Analysis: A New Approach.- 3 Author's Motivation for a Speech Act Classification.- 4 Description and Explanation of the Method.- 5 Survey of the Resulting Speech Act Classification.- 6 Prospects and Limitations.- 7 References.- II Lexicon Sections.- Directions for Using Lexicon Section I.- 8 Lexicon Section I Semantic Classification of Speech Act Verbs.- Directions for Using Lexicon Section II.- 9 Lex…
Pragmatics
Lexical decomposition, perlocutions, and meaning postulates∗
Pragmatics
Reflections on presupposition failure
Pragmatics
Pragmatics
The analysis of speech act verbs
Pragmatics
A la recherche d'une pragmatique unifiée
Verschueren Jef. A la recherche d'une pragmatique unifiée. In: Communications, 32, 1980. Les actes de discours, sous la direction de Anne-Marie Diller. pp. 274-284
Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics
This impressive volume attempts to make an assessment of past achievements, but also to open up new perspectives in the field of pragmatics, exactly ten years after the publication of Searle’s seminal Speech Acts . This rich collection presents an unrivaled diversity of topics and approaches united by the possibilities and limitations generic to the field of pragmatics.
Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics
Pragmatics
Problems of lexical semantics
Language - the loaded weapon
Pragmatics
The Boat's Gonna Leave
Text, Discourse, and Process
Pragmatics
A study in the dimensions of semantic competence
Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics
On Bogusławski on promise
Speech Act Classification
I Classification.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Lexical Analysis: A New Approach.- 3 Author's Motivation for a Speech Act Classification.- 4 Description and Explanation of the Method.- 5 Survey of the Resulting Speech Act Classification.- 6 Prospects and Limitations.- 7 References.- II Lexicon Sections.- Directions for Using Lexicon Section I.- 8 Lexicon Section I Semantic Classification of Speech Act Verbs.- Directions for Using Lexicon Section II.- 9 Lex…
Linguistics and crosscultural communication (Review article)
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Sprache
Semantic Structure in the Finnish Lexicon
A Dictionary of Ngizim
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