The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death

Introduction: Death, Dying and the Pragmeme, Vahid Parvaresh.- Part I: Death and Society.- Catholic Rituals of Death and Funeral Homily: A Socio-Pragmatic Survey in Southern Italy, Elvira Assenza.- Pragmeme(s) of Sympathy Cards in the Midwestern US, Richard W. Hallett.- Panegyrists, Vagueness and the Pragmeme, Vahid Parvaresh.- Grief Interactions Among Emerging Adults on College Campuses, Mary Alice Varga.- Pre-Funeral Condolence Visits as Pragmemes, Konosoang Sobane and Cyril Adonis.- Socio-Cultural Factors in Analyzing the Pragmeme of Accommodation:  A Case Study of the Official Online Eulogy Request System in Taiwan, Wei-lun Lu.- The Pragmeme of Accommodation in Yorùbá Death Events, Taiwo Ehineni.- Specifying Pragmemes: The Case of Expressing Condolences in Memorial Advertisements, Gregor Walczak.- Stories of Grief and Loss: How College Students Learned to Listen, Barbara A. McDonald.- PART II: DEATH ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES.- To Be Headed for the West, Riding a Crane: Chinese Pragmemes in the Wake of  Someone's Passing, Adrian Tien.- English vs. Japanese Condolences: What People Say and Why, John C. Wakefield and Hiroko Itakura.- On Death in Artificial Languages, Alan Libert.- Toward a Pragmatic Study of Funeral Discourses in Taiwan: Voice, Shared Situation Knowledge, and Metaphor, Ming-yu Tseng.- Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German, Philipp Hänggi & Catherine Diederich.- Sacrificed, Lost or Gave Life for Their Country: Cognitive Analysis of Euphemisms for Death in G.W. Bush and B. Obama's War Speeches, Ivana Moritz.- Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Perspectives on the Emotional and Pragmatic Expression of Sympathy in Spanish and English, Jocelly G. Meiners.- PART III: THE LANGUAGE OF DEATH.- 'The Bad Death'- Deciphering and Developing the Dominant Discourse on 'The Good Death', Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- "CLOSING THE BOOK OF LIFE": The Hospice Discourse and the Construction of the Dying Role: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis, Leen Van Brussel & Nico Carpentier.- Reclaiming Self by Working through Loss: A Discourse Analysis of Psychotherapy Sessions, Joanna Pawelczyk.- A Death in Late Victorian Dublin, Keith Allan.- Gray's 'Elegy': A Polyphonous Elegy Sung to The Silence of Death, Maria Grazia Dongu.- The Fragile Nature of Human Glory: Death and Poetry in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Dario Tomasello.- Talking Death: An Analysis of Selected Entries in Frida Kahlo's Diary, Roxana Delbene