Against the background of a general theory pragmatics, reflections are formulated on central role metapragmatic awareness as specific manifestation salience, status processes meaning generation in language use relation to cognitive apparatus. First notions metalanguage and metapragmatics, used linguistics, discussed. Then metalinguistic phenomena presented awareness. Two ways which indicators f...

Abstract The present study takes a metapragmatics approach to studying language users' conceptualizations of requests and apologies. In particular, two spoken sub-corpora within the BNC COCA were searched for inflectional derivational variants request apology , which are part meta-illocutionary lexicon. retrieved items analyzed with respect frequency occurrence communicative functions in contex...

The paper analyzes the concept of social meaning, which has been conceptualized in lexi­cal semantics since 1980s and become central modern sociolinguistics linguis­tic anthropology. It used to describe pragmatic increments meaning a lan­guage unit, it receives context. New explanatory approaches have developed from sociolinguistic perspective metapragmatics, where is seen as index that emerges...

Abstract In this paper, I apply a metapragmatics-based approach to visual communication, combined with adapted concepts of Social Semiotics (“visual modality”) and CDA-oriented analysis (“canons use”), reconstruct two registers authenticity which are prevailing within social media photo sample recent Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz (Facebook, Instagram; total 84 photos), posted during the pa...

Humans are equipped with some universal or language-specific abilities to recognize emotions. However, because of the different emotional contents in diverse languages and the relevant cultural differences, humans with different cultural backgrounds own different metapragmatical abilities to recognize and express emotions. A hypothesis concerning emotional effects about intonation and particle ...

Both impoliteness and hate speech deal with offensive behaviour, yet it is also obvious that they are not exactly the same. This paper aims to tease out similarities differences. The first part concentrates on theorising by scholars, thus takes a second-order perspective. It discusses notions of face (largely overlooked in studies speech), incitement impoliteness) intentionality (and related co...

The article addresses two central notions, namely social meaning and political correctness. concept of is well known in “third wave” sociolinguistics, which connects patterns language variation with the wider world, metapragmatics after Michael Silverstein, ideology research discourse analysis. analysis line these approaches also reflects back pragmatic interpretation meanings. It presumed that...

On 02.06.2020, the social media team of Deutsche Bahn, German railway company, announced on Twitter that for a three-month launching phase, they would use singular T-form du to address their customers. basis corpus public tweets analyzed as metapragmatic comments, I examine which stances users adopt and what these tell us about how German-speaking Twittersphere metapragmatically assesses approp...

One of the possible ways to explore contextualization is through external discourses referencing pragmatics discourse in question. These are known as metapragmatic discourse. The purpose this article theoretically integrate concept metapragmatics into genre analysis and apply tools specific genres. Five YouTube videos together with their accompanying comments exhibiting properties were analyzed...