Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures
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Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

About this book

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains four sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication, covering a wide range of topics, from speech acts and politeness issues to Lingua Franca and Corporate Crises Communication. The approach is theoretical, methodological as well as applied, with a focus on authentic, interactional data. All articles are written by renowned leading specialists, who provide in-depth, up-to-date overviews, and view new directions and visions for future research.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Cultural scripts and intercultural communication
  5. 2. Compliment and compliment response research: A cross-cultural survey
  6. 3. Telephone conversation openings across languages, cultures and settings
  7. 4. Intercultural (im)politeness and the micro-macro issue
  8. 5. Pragmatics East and West: Similar or different?
  9. 6. Intercultural competence and pragmatics research: Examining the interface through studies of intercultural business discourse
  10. 7. Exploring the pragmatics of interlanguage pragmatics: Definition by design
  11. 8. Theoretical and methodological approaches in interlanguage pragmatics
  12. 9. Pragmatic challenges for second language learners
  13. 10. The acquisition of terms of address in a second language
  14. 11. Longitudinal studies in interlanguage pragmatics
  15. 12. The Pragmatics of English as a lingua franca
  16. 13. Assessing learnability in second language pragmatics
  17. 14. The teaching of speech acts in second and foreign language instructional contexts
  18. 15. Correcting others and self-correcting in business and professional discourse and textbooks.
  19. 16. Testing interlanguage pragmatic knowledge
  20. 17. Pragmatics and research into corporate communication
  21. 18. Credibility in corporate discourse
  22. 19. Corporate crisis communication across cultures
  23. 20. The pragmatics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across cultures
  24. 21. Corporate culture in a global age: Starbucks’ “Social Responsibility” and the merging of corporate and personal interests
  25. Backmatter