Screen LibraryResearch trends in intercultural pragmatics /
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 styli...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Mouton series in pragmatics [msp];
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| Summary: |
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. |
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1 online resource(xiv,507pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614513735 |
| Index Number: | P99 |
| CLC: | H030 |
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics / The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek iati and epei i / 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 / 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 / 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 |