Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse (Janua Linguarum. Series Maior, 101) (German Edition)

Die Neuauflage des bewährten Lehrbuches baut auf dem Grundlagenstoff der Volkswirtschaftslehre I auf und erweitert ihn systematisch um folgende Themenfelder: Geld-, Gütermarkt und gesamtwirtschaftliches Gleichgewicht, Inflation, Geld- und Kreditpolitik, Fiskalpolitik, Umweltpolitik und einführende Überlegungen zur Regionalökonomie, um sich dann ausführlich mit allen Facetten der internationalen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu beschäftigen. Die Leser erhalten auf diese Weise einen umfassenden Einblick in die theoretischen Zusammenhänge und die wirtschaftspolitischen Herausforderungen moderner und offener Volkswirtschaften. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende in Diplom- und Bachelor-Studiengängen vor allem an wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten an Hochschulen sowie an Praktiker im Beruf und an alle in Aus- und Weiterbildung Stehende. Preface Acknowledgments Chapter one Towards a pragmatics of discourse 1. Introduction 2. Generative-transformational grammar and text grammar 3. Text grammar and pragmatics 4. Some issues in the pragmatics of discourse Chapter two Pragmatics, presuppositions and context grammars 1. The status of pragmatics 2. Context grammars 3. Pragmatic structures 4. Texts and contexts 5. Semantics and pragmatics 6. Presuppositions in text grammars and context grammars Chapter three A note on the partial equivalence of text and context grammars Chapter four Acceptability in context 1. The problem 2. The philosophy of ‘acceptability’ 3. Relative grammaticalness 4. Pragmatic acceptability 5. Macro-structures 6. Discourse and cognition Chapter five Issues in the pragmatics of discourse 1. Sentences and sequences 2. Further pragmatic constraints on sequences 3. Acts and speech acts 4. Focus, perspective and related notions 5. Final remarks Chapter six Pragmatic Connectives 1. Speech act sequences 2. Semantic connectives 3. Pragmatic connectives 4. Conclusions Chapter seven Sentence topic and discourse topic 1. The problem 2. Sentence topic 3. Discourse topic 4. Conclusions Chapter eight Pragmatic macro-structures in discourse and cognition 1. Introduction 2. Semantic macro-structures 3. Sentence sequences and speech act sequences 4. Macro-acts 5. Pragmatic macro-structures 6. Pragmatics and cognition Chapter nine Context and cognition Knowledge frames and speech act comprehension 1. The foundations of pragmatics 2. The cognitive nature of pragmatic conditions 3. Pragmatic comprehension 4. Frames and speech acts 5. Context analysis 6. Examples of context analysis 7. The ‘dynamics’ of context 8. Utterance analysis 9. Comprehension of speech act sequences and macro-speech acts 10. Psychological process assumptions Chapter ten The pragmatics of literary communication 1. Pragmatics 2. Literary communication 3. The pragmatics of literature 4. Concluding remark Chapter eleven The semantics and pragmatics of functional coherence 1. The problem 2. Pragmatic theory 3. Semantic relations in discourse 4. Functional coherence at the semantic level 5. Speech act sequences and functional pragmatic coherence 6. Conclusions Chapter twelve Towards an empirical pragmatics Some social psychological conditions of speech acts 1. Introductory summary 2. The need for an empirical pragmatics 3. The cognitive model of speech acts 4. Social psychological factors 5. Concluding remark Chapter thirteen Conclusion, open problems, further prospects and future research 1. General conclusions 2. Open problems 3. Further prospects and future research Bibliography Subject Index Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse Janua Linguarum. Series Maior