Kecskes / Romero-Trillo Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61451-373-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 521 Seiten

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics (Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kecskes, Istvan

Romero-Trillo, Jesús

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contributors;9
2;Introduction;15
3;Linguistic and cognitive aspects;19
3.1;Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics;21
3.2;The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek .iati and epeidi;43
3.3;Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice’s model in the context of (im)politeness theories;69
3.4;Irony: making as if we pretend to echo;99
3.5;Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence;119
3.6;Context dynamism in classroom discourse;159
4;Socio-cultural aspects;175
4.1;Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings;177
4.2;A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect;195
4.3;The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics;233
4.4;Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication;253
4.5;Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures?;277
4.6;Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study;297
5;Discourse and stylistics;329
5.1;The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts;331
5.2;Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube;357
5.3;Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse;381
5.4;Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction;409
5.5;Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals;435
5.6;Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse;453
5.7;A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation;473
5.8;Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press;493
6;Subject index;507
7;Person index;512

Über Autor(innen)

Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York at Albany, USA; Jesús Romero-Trillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.