The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning
theoretical issues in social meaning and the expression of gender. It will hence appeal not only to researchers in formal semantics and pragmatics, but also to sociolinguists, anthropological linguists, and philosophers.
Author: Elin McCready
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780198821366
About the Author
Elin McCready is Professor of Linguistics at Aoyama Gakuin University, where she also heads the Singularity Research Institute. Her main area of research is formal semantics and pragmatics, with secondary interests in epistemology, game theory, and feminist philosophy. Her work has been published in journals including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistics and Philosophy, and Journal of Pragmatics. She is the author of Reliability in Pragmatics (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond (with Katsuhiko Yabushita and Kei Yoshimoto; Springer, 2014) and Epistemology for the Rest of the World (with Stephen Stich and Masaharu Mizumoto; OUP, 2018).