Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction / / ed. by Istvan Kecskes.

In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. Taking into account not only L1 but also intercultural interactions and attempting to bring together the traditional view with the egocentris...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 341 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Understanding common ground
  • The interdependence of common ground and context
  • Understanding common ground as a cognitive object
  • From laboratory to real life: Obstacles in common ground building
  • Presupposition failures and the negotiation of the common ground
  • 2 Emergent common ground
  • Grounding emergent common ground: Detecting markers of emergent common ground in a YouTube discussion thread
  • Co-constructing emergent common ground: The role of the intercultural mediator
  • The co-construction of common ground through exemplars unique to an ESL classroom
  • 3 Common ground building
  • Mutual knowledge and the ‘hidden common ground’: An interdisciplinary perspective on mutual understanding in intercultural communication
  • The linguistic code as basis for common ground building in English as a foreign language
  • ELF disagreement as an interactional resource for doing interculturality
  • 4 Common ground in different discourses
  • Working offline: Common ground in written discourse
  • Metapragmatic expressions as common ground builders in intercultural business communication
  • Harmony and common ground: Aikido principles for intercultural training
  • Contributors to this volume
  • Index