perspectives from variational, interlanguage and contrastive pragmatics
edited by Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, UK, and Helen Woodfield, University of Bristol, UK.
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
(305 pages)
List of Tables and Figures; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Variational Pragmatics; 2 Pragmalinguistic Variation and Barista Perceptions in US Café Service Encounters; 3 The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments; 4 Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals; 5 Revisiting You Know Using the BNCweb Query System: a Sociopragmatic Analysis; 6 Compliment Responses among Malaysian Multilinguals; Part II: Interlanguage Pragmatics; 7 Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers' and ESL Learners' Requests. 8 Variability in Native and Non-Native Use of Pragmatic Markers: the Example of Well in Role-Play DataPart III: Contrastive Pragmatics; 9 Well in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective; 10 Combining Self-Report and Role-Play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: towards a Methodological Synthesis; Part IV: Sociopragmatic Competence and the Language Classroom; 11 Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL.
Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers across different languages and varieties of a language, investigating native and non-native usages and variation across gender, situation and addressee.
Interlanguage (Language learning) -- Social aspects.
Pragmatics -- Social aspects.
Pragmatics -- Variation.
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P72
E358
2015
edited by Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, UK, and Helen Woodfield, University of Bristol, UK.