[PDF] Pragmatics Across Languages And Cultures eBook

Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311021444X

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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.

Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : Mouton De Gruyter
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110214437

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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.

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2009-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110220962

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This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.

Author : Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9783034306119

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Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in pragmatics, and it is also the focus of this book. The aim of this book is to reflect this development, providing evidence from four main areas crucial to pragmatics across languages and cultures: a description of a variety of speech acts and politeness strategies in different languages and cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of several speech acts and patterns of politeness, an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the learning and teaching of speech acts and politeness in second/foreign languages, as well as some methodological resources in pragmatics. This book is intended for researchers, scholars and students interested in the field of pragmatics, in general, or in the fields of cross-cultural and second/foreign language pragmatics, and specifically for those interested in speech acts and politeness. It will also be useful to any scholar interested in how communication and culture are related.

Author : Carol Lynn Moder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027230782

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This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.

Author : Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199892652

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In Intercultural Pragmatics, the first book on the subject, Istvan Kecskes establishes the foundations of the field, boldly combining the pragmatic view of cooperation with the cognitive view of egocentrism in order to incorporate emerging features of communication.

Author : Zsuzsanna I. Abrams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108490158

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Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

Author : Heather Bowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107685141

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Communication Across Cultures remains an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and education. It is also a valuable resource for professionals concerned with language and intercultural communication in this global era.

Author : Kang Kwong Luke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588112194

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The aim of this book is to bring together research on telephone conversations in different languages, to compare and contrast people's methods of handling telephone conversational tasks indifferent communities, and to explore the relationship between telephone conversational practice and cultural settings.

Author : Juliane House
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108845118

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This book provides an engaging introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics. It is essential reading for both academics and students in pragmatics, applied linguistics, language teaching and translation studies. It offers a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be systematically contrasted across linguacultures.