Ethnopragmatics : : Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context /

Ethnopragmatics : : Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context / / ed. by Cliff Goddard.

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The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is dis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Ameka, Felix K.,
Goddard, Cliff,
Hasada, Rie,
Travis, Catherine E.,
Wierzbicka, Anna,
Wong, Jock Onn,
Ye, Zhengdao,
HerausgeberIn:
Goddard, Cliff,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm
  • 2. Anglo scripts against “putting pressure” on other people and their linguistic manifestations
  • 3. “Lift your game Martina!”: deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English
  • 4. Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore
  • 5. Why the “inscrutable” Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese
  • 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world
  • 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish
  • 8. “When I die, don’t cry”: the ethnopragmatics of “gratitude” in West African languages
  • Author index
  • General index

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