Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Istvan Kecskes (editor); Jesús Romero-Trillo (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 522
Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]; 16
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume looks at current issues in Intercultural Pragmatics from an applied perspective. The content is organized in three sections that encompass the primary applications of intercultural exchanges: the linguistic and cognitive domain, the social and cultural domain, and the discourse and stylistics domain. The chapters analyze real language situations in English, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Filipino or Polish.

✦ Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction
Linguistic and cognitive aspects
Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics
The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek γiati and epeiδi
Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice’s model in the context of (im)politeness theories
Irony: making as if we pretend to echo
Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence
Context dynamism in classroom discourse
Socio-cultural aspects
Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings
A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect
The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics
Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication
Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures?
Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study
Discourse and stylistics
The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts
Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube
Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse
Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction
Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals
Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse
A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation
Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press
Subject index
Person index

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