Title: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 343
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.343

Editor: Sandrine Sorlin
Editor: Tuija Virtanen
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214614 Pages: 276 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214614 Pages: 276 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214614 Pages: 276 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214614 Pages: 276 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247056 Pages: 276 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247056 Pages: 276 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
eBook: ISBN: 9789027247056 Pages: 276 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.

Written In: English (eng)