Download or read book Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Trosborg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Pragmatics Across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Trosborg and published by Mouton De Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Pragmatics written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Discourse Across Languages and Cultures written by Carol Lynn Moder and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures written by Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Intercultural Pragmatics written by Istvan Kecskes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Communication Across Cultures written by Heather Bowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy written by Zsuzsanna I. Abrams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.
Download or read book Human Communication Across Cultures written by Vincent Leonard Remillard and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place. Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Each section includes a brief introduction, a discussion of the topic, references for further research and an extensive collection of activities designed for both in-class usage and homework assignments.
Download or read book Telephone Calls written by Kang Kwong Luke and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has its origins in a panel entitled "Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in Conversational Structure Across Languages and Cultures" organized by the editors for the 6th International Pragmatics Conference in Reims in July 1998.
Download or read book Us and Others written by Anna Duszak and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the various cognitive, social, and linguistic aspects of how social identities are constructed, forgrounded and redefined in interaction. Concepts and methodologies are taken from studies in language variation and change, multilingualism, conversation analysis, genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, as well as translation studies and applied linguistics.
Download or read book Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison written by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores various hitherto under-researched relationships between languages and their discourse-cultural settings. The first two sections analyze the complex interplay between lexico-grammatical organization and communicative contexts. Part I focuses on structural options in syntax, deepening the analysis of information-packaging strategies. Part II turns to lexical studies, covering such matters as human perception and emotion, the psychological understanding of ‘home’ and ‘abroad’, the development of children’s emotional life and the relation between lexical choice and sexual orientation. The final chapters consider how new techniques of contrastive linguistics and pragmatics are contributing to the primary field of application for contrastive analysis, language teaching and learning. The book will be of special interest to scholars and students of linguistics, discourse analysis and cultural studies and to those entrusted with teaching European languages and cultures. The major languages covered are Akan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.
Download or read book Contrastive Pragmatics written by Karin Aijmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).
Download or read book Emotions Across Languages and Cultures written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the bodily expression of emotion in worldwide and culture-specific contexts.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Pragmatics written by Juliane House and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use written by Troy McConachy and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cross Cultural Pragmatics written by Juliane House and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics is relevant for a variety of fields, such as pragmatics, applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, translation, intercultural communication and sociolinguistics. Written by two leading scholars in the field, this book offers an accessible overview of cross-cultural pragmatics, by providing insights into the theory and practice of systematically comparing language use in different cultural contexts. The authors provide a ground-breaking, language-anchored, strictly empirical and replicable framework applicable for the study of different datatypes and situations. The framework is illustrated with case studies drawn from a variety of linguacultures, such as English, Chinese, Japanese and German. In these case studies, the reader is provided with contrastive analyses of language use in important contexts such as globalised business, politics and classrooms. This book is essential reading for both academics and students.
