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Speech Acts and Politeness across Languages and Cultures

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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. 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. 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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ISBN: 9783034306119
Publication date:
Author: Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 416 pages
Series: Linguistic Insights
Genres: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Language acquisition
Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
Literary studies: general
Cultural studies
Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages: Language learning