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TOWARD A MOTIVATION MODEL OF PRAGMATICS - RONG ...

With the discursive turn has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that
seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust  with its
accompanying overemphasis on specificity and fluidity of linguistic meaning and social values 
is unwarranted and unhelpful. Drawing on insights from social theories and various strands of
pragmatics  he proposes a motivation model of pragmatics (MMP)  contending that language use
can be adequately  coherently  and elegantly studied via the motivation behind it in its varied
and dynamic contexts. The model  with its well-laid out components  is then applied to
(im)politeness research  cross-cultural pragmatics  diachronic pragmatics  discourse and genre
analysis  conversation analysis  identity construction  and the study of metaphor  sarcasm 
parody  and lying. MMP is thus a framework aimed at accounting for fluidity with stable notions
specificity with general principles  and differences with similar underlying factors. As such 
the book should appeal to students of pragmatics  (im)politeness  conversation analysis 
sociolinguistics  applied linguistics  communication  sociology  and psychology.

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