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Context and Appropriateness Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS) Pragmatics & Beyond New Series is a continuation of Pragmatics & Beyond and its Companion Series. The New Series offers a selection of high quality work covering the full richness of Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field, within language sciences. Editor Andreas H. Jucker University of Zurich, English Department Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] Associate Editors Jacob L. Mey Herman Parret Jef Verschueren University of Southern Belgian National Science Belgian National Science Denmark Foundation, Universities of Foundation, Louvain and Antwerp University of Antwerp Editorial Board Shoshana Blum-Kulka Susan C. Herring Emanuel A. Schegloff Hebrew University of Indiana University University of California at Los Jerusalem Angeles Masako K. Hiraga Jean Caron St.Paul’s (Rikkyo) University Deborah Schiffrin Université de Poitiers Georgetown University David Holdcroft Robyn Carston University of Leeds Paul Osamu Takahara University College London Kobe City University of Sachiko Ide Foreign Studies Bruce Fraser Japan Women’s University Boston University Sandra A. Thompson Catherine Kerbrat- University of California at Thorstein Fretheim Orecchioni Santa Barbara University of Trondheim University of Lyon 2 Teun A. van Dijk John C. Heritage Claudia de Lemos Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona University of California at Los University of Campinas, Brazil Angeles Richard J. Watts Marina Sbisà University of Berne University of Trieste Volume 162 Context and Appropriateness. Micro meets macro Anita Fetzer (ed.) Context and Appropriateness Micro meets macro Edited by Anita Fetzer Lueneburg University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Context and appropriateness : micro meets macro / edited by Anita Fetzer. p. cm. -- (Pragmatics & beyond new series, issn 0922-842X ; v. 162) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Discourse analysis. 2. Context (Linguistics) 3. Speech acts (Linguistics) 4. Acceptability (Linguistics) 5. Pragmatics. I. Fetzer, Anita, 1958- P302.C6225 2007 306.44--dc22 2007015637 isbn 978 90 272 5406 1 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2007 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Introduction Context, contexts and appropriateness 3 Anita Fetzer Part I. Bridging problems between context and appropriateness Similar situations 31 Varol Akman Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue 55 Etsuko Oishi Appropriateness: An adaptive view 79 Thanh Nyan Party II. Bridging problems between communicative action and appropriateness If I may say so: Indexing appropriateness in dialogue 115 Anita Fetzer The appropriateness of questions 147 Annette Becker Cooperative conflict and evasive language: The case of the 9–11 commission hearings 167 Lawrence N. Berlin vi Table of contents Part III. Bridging problems between micro and macro The attenuating conditional: Context, appropriateness and interaction 203 Johanna Miecznikowski and Carla Bazzanella Collaborative use of contrastive markers: Contextual and co-textual implications 235 Francesca Carota Index 261 Introduction Context, contexts and appropriateness Anita Fetzer University of Lueneburg, Germany Communication is both context-creating and context-dependent (Bateson 1972) Introductory comments The papers collected in this edited volume on ‘Context and Appropriateness’ re- sult from a panel organized on this topic at the 9th IPrA Conference held in Riva del Garda in the year 2005.1 As was the case with the presentations invited for the panel, this volume addresses context and appropriateness from a variety of theo- retical and applied perspectives. Thus, the papers range from the research para- digms of philosophy of language, speech act theory, sociopragmatics, cognitive pragmatics and critical discourse analysis. The variety of topics, which the indi- vidual contributions cover, allows for a refined bottom-up and top-down analysis of the concepts of context and appropriateness as well of their multifaceted con- nectedness. It is the purpose of this introduction to examine and contextualize the concepts of context, contexts and appropriateness, to give an overview on how the notions are reflected in different – if not sometimes diverging – approaches to language and language use, and to locate the individual papers’ contributions in the overall statement made with this book. 1. Contexts in context Context has become a major field of research in information technology, engi- neering, science, and in the social sciences, arts and humanities, to name but a 1. The editor is deeply grateful to the participants of the panel, to the discussant Andreas Jucker and to the audience for their helpful input. Special thanks go to Isja Conen of John Ben- jamins and to the reviewers of the papers, for their insightful comments.
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