Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Kate Beeching, Helen Woodfield (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Pragmalinguistic Variation and Barista Perceptions in US Café Service Encounters∗....Pages 19-48
The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments....Pages 49-71
Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals....Pages 72-93
Revisiting You Know Using the BNCweb Query System: a Sociopragmatic Analysis....Pages 94-118
Compliment Responses among Malaysian Multilinguals....Pages 119-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers’ and ESL Learners’ Requests....Pages 151-173
Variability in Native and Non-Native Use of Pragmatic Markers: the Example of Well in Role-Play Data....Pages 174-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Well in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective....Pages 201-229
Combining Self-Report and Role-Play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: towards a Methodological Synthesis....Pages 230-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL....Pages 253-275
The Application of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Research Findings to the Teaching of Pragmatic Competence....Pages 276-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-305

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; Pragmatics