{"product_id":"semantics-and-pragmatics-of-honorification-register-and-social-meaning-paperback","title":"Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElin McCready\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. Although these expressions are found in many languages worldwide, this volume is the first to approach the area from the perspective of formal semantics and pragmatics. Elin McCready treats honorifics - and expressions with honorific import - as carriers of expressive content that contributes either directly or indirectly to a register corresponding to the current formality of the speech situation. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, including utterance and argument honorifics in Japanese, Thai, and several other languages. It is proposed that the distinct strategies that different languages use for honorification have implications for the grammaticality of certain combination of honorifics. The volume also explores the connections between honorification and a range of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElin McCready \u003c\/strong\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eNatural Language and Linguistic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLinguistics and Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJournal of Pragmatics\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eReliability in Pragmatics\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2015) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eFormal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics: Japanese and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e (with Katsuhiko Yabushita and Kei Yoshimoto; Springer, 2014) and \u003cem\u003eEpistemology for the Rest of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (with Stephen Stich and Masaharu Mizumoto; OUP, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753972171040,"sku":"9780198821373","price":80.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/86b0b7fa2fb1ac6f4c3e061eb5401cd2.webp?v=1780030606","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-honorification-register-and-social-meaning-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}