Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and principled human adaptability in interaction, form, and meaning. Working on different strands of such a socially oriented pragmatics, the authors gathered in this volume study the adaptability of language as shaped by the conditions of society, culture, and cognition. Grouped in four sections, the book's chapters explore the embedding of adaptability in language ideology, text, communicative practice, and learning. Adopting these various perspectives, the authors gauge how language users navigate the different layers of societal, cognitive, and communicative constraints, while adapting their communicative practices, language ideologies, and technologies of interaction to their everyday living conditions.
Introduction: The ability to form and transform in pragmatics
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Adapting to changing concepts of time: From life to fiction
págs. 55-74
The reality of technological worldviews: Time and space frames of reference in the world of self-driving cars
págs. 75-95
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Self-containment and contamination: Two competing circuits of adaptability
págs. 117-141
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The adaptability of becoming: Karina Buhr’s becoming-junglehood
págs. 171-187
Face, conflict, and adaptability in mediated intercultural invitations: Young adults navigate complexities of ethnicity, gender, nationality and age
págs. 191-212
Discussing breast cancer in cyber spaces: A pragmatic study
págs. 213-234
Expressing opinions and emotions while travelling on-line: A corpus-pragmatic approach
págs. 235-257
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Apprenticeship in microbiology: Embodied adaptation to experimental and technological aspects of learning
págs. 285-298
Technological context: A new pragmatic product created by mobile devices
págs. 299-324
Language policy and language teaching: Conditions of adaptability
págs. 325-342
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