Doing Pragmatics Interculturally

Doing Pragmatics Interculturally

Author: Rachel Giora

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 3110543931

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Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields and perceived barriers to doing pragmatics interculturally.


Doing Pragmatics Interculturally

Doing Pragmatics Interculturally

Author: Rachel Giora

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 3110546094

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Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields and perceived barriers to doing pragmatics interculturally.


Doing Pragmatics

Doing Pragmatics

Author: Peter Grundy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1444116983

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Doing Pragmatics achieved success through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics truly accessible to students. Embracing the comprehensive and engaging style which characterised the previous editions, the third edition is fully revised and expanded. Grundy consolidates the strengths of the original version, reinforcing its unique combination of theory and practice with new theory, exercises and up-to-date, real data and examples. New chapters include pragmatic inference and language evolution, and intercultural pragmatics. Doing Pragmatics is designed for pragmatics courses both at an introductory and a more advanced level. It extends beyond theory to promote an applied understanding of empirical data and to provide students with the opportunity to 'do' pragmatics themselves, providing the ideal foundation for all those studying linguistics and ELT.


Intercultural Pragmatics

Intercultural Pragmatics

Author: Istvan Kecskes

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 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.


Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy

Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy

Author: Zsuzsanna I. Abrams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-08-27

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108490158

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


Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Author: István Kecskés

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789027256799

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The present volume is a collection of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication - admittedly the biggest venue for researchers in the area, and comprises contributions that report on recent research that deals with or can directly inform work in intercultural pragmatics.


Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures

Author: Anna Trosborg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 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.


Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding

Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding

Author: Troy McConachy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1000482995

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This collection argues for the need to promote intercultural understanding as a clear goal for teaching and learning pragmatics in second and foreign language education. The volume sees the learning of pragmatics as a challenging yet enriching process whereby the individual expands their capacity for understanding how meaning making processes influence social relationships and how assumptions about social relationships shape the interpretation and use of language in context. This locates pragmatics within a humanistically oriented conception of learning where success is defined relative to the enrichment of human understanding and appreciation of difference. The book argues that intercultural understanding is not an “add on” to language learning but central to the learner’s ability to understand and construct meaning with individuals from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Chapters analyse teachers’ and learners’ ways of making sense of pragmatics, how their assumptions about social relationships impact their perceptions of language use, and how reflection on pragmatic judgments opens up possibilities for developing intercultural understanding. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in intercultural communication, language education, and applied linguistics.


Explorations in Pragmatics

Explorations in Pragmatics

Author: Istvan Kecskes

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 3110198843

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The papers in this volume reflect current trends in international research in pragmatics over recent years. The unique feature of the book is that the authors coming from ten different countries represent all aspects of pragmatics and address issues that have emerged as the result of recent research in pragmatics proper and neighboring fields such as cognitive psychology, philosophy, and communication. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology, intercultural communication and bilingual pragmatics have directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination and revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. In addition, cultural changes originating from globalization have affected the relation of language to the wider world. In particular, the spread of English as a global language has led to the emergence of issues of usage, power, and control that must be dealt with in a comprehensive pragmatics of language. Pragmatic theories have traditionally emphasized the importance of intention, rationality, cooperation, common ground, mutual knowledge, relevance, and commitment in the formation and execution of communicative acts. The new approaches to pragmatic research reflected in this volume, while not questioning the central role of these factors, extend the purview of the discipline to allow for a more comprehensive picture of their functioning and interrelationship within the dynamics of communication. The papers address these issues from a variety of directions. In Part I, Searle and Horn examine language use and pragmatics from a philosophical perspective. In Part II, the cognitive aspect of pragmatics is represented in the papers of Moeschler, Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi, and Giora. They focus on well-known domains such as illocutionary constructions, the pragmatics of negation, and the relevance-theoretic concept of explicature. However, each paper sheds new light on the familiar concepts. The papers in Part III by Mey, Kecskes and Grundy discuss the intercultural aspects of pragmatics while Terkourafi explores the explanatory potential of an interpretation of Grice's Cooperative Principle. Margerie's and Geeraert & Kristiansen's articles focus on the application of usage-based methodology in different ways within pragmatics.


Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Author: Troy McConachy

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1783099348

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Many language teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning, but how this can be best achieved is not always apparent. This is particularly the case in foreign language learning contexts where teachers are working with a prescribed textbook and opportunities to use the language outside the classroom are limited. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners interpret aspects of communication in insightful ways and develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use. The book provides extensive analysis of a range of classroom interactions to demonstrate how teachers and learners can work together to construct opportunities for intercultural learning through reflection on pragmatics.