Introduction: Towards an emancipatory pragmatics  

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Hanks, William F.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 41 no. 1 (Jan. 2009), page 1-9.
Topik: Emancipatory pragmatics; Transdisciplinary research; Communicative practice; Common sense ideas of participants; Deictic field; Multimodality
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The papers in this volume have developed out of dialogues and collaboration over a decade. The initial step was taken by Yasuhiro Katagiri in a project investigating ‘‘the influence of social cognition on speech behavior,’’ funded by ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International) during 1995–1997. He and Sachiko Ide proposed a panel at the 5th IPrA Conference (1996) on ‘‘Japanese language, thought and cultural practice: toward relativity,’’ with John Lucy serving as a discussant. Inspired by Bernard Comrie’s idea of a ‘‘cultural target for grammaticalization,’’ Kaoru Horie and Sachiko Ide designed a project on ‘‘the influence of culture on grammaticalization in East Asian languages,’’ funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) during 1998–2000. Immediately prior to the current project, there was an earlier one in which Kuniyoshi Kataoka played a major role, on the topic of ‘‘culture, interaction and language’’ funded by JSPS during 2001–2002 and 2003–2005. Panels also were held on ‘‘East Asian discourse and cultural ideology’’ at the 6th IPrA Conference (1998), with Dell Hymes as a discussant, and on ‘‘Harmony: culture, cognition and communication in East Asia’’ at the 7th IPrA Conference (2000). One symposium and threeworkshops were presented at the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences, and one special issue for the Journal of Pragmatics, edited by Kita and Ide (2007) was proposed as the result of this line of projects. Participants involved are Sotaro Kita, Scott Saft, Shoichi Iwasaki, Yoko Fujii,Masato Ishizaki, Kazuyoshi Sugawara, Keiko Abe, Krisadawan Hongladarom, Mayouf Mayouf, Nick Enfield, and Li Wei. Jane Hill and Asif Agha served as guests on this project. In recent years, William Hanks has played a major role in this project. In 2004 the group met in Tokyo, coincident with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, and again at the 9th IPrA Conference (2005). At the 10th IPrA Conference (2007), Saft, Ide and Hanks co-organized the panel ‘‘Toward an emancipatory pragmatics: Culture, language and interaction in crosslinguistic perspectives,’’ at which members of the group presented their research. From the outset of this project, our intention was not to confine our horizon to East Asia, but to seek out languages beyond the Western and East Asian worlds.

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