Speech acts and politeness across languages and cultures /
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| Imprint: | Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012. |
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| Description: | 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistic insights: studies in language and communication, 1424-8689 ; v. 132 Linguistic insights ; v. 132. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8854482 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> 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.<br> 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783034306119 3034306113 |
| ISSN: | 1424-8689 ; |
