Conceptual Focus in Social Encounters: the Case of Directives

• Authors: Hanna Pulaczewska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present analysis focuses on highlighting the conceptual focus on groups as a specific property of discourse in young peer groups of Polish speakers. Its alternative is the conceptual focus on individual interlocutors; the latter is implicitly assumed to be an interactive norm in a vast body of pragmatic studies dealing with the performance of speech acts in both monolingual and comparative setups. The analysis is based on empirical material comprising interaction in young peer groups in Poland, Great Britain and Germany under constant experimental conditions, made possible by the international commercial project "Big Brother" belonging to the genre of reality T.V.

Keywords

EN

directive; collectivism; individualism; group processes

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 171-189

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-06-30

Contributors

author

Hanna Pulaczewska

• WSSM Łódź, University of Regensburg, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10016-010-0004-z