Pragmatics across Languages and Cultures (Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS] Book 7)

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains four sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication, covering a wide range of topics, from speech acts and politeness issues to Lingua Franca and Corporate Crises Communication. The approach is theoretical, methodological as well as applied, with a focus on authentic, interactional data. All articles are written by renowned leading specialists, who provide in-depth, up-to-date overviews, and view new directions and visions for future research. covers topics such as international communication, intercultural politeness and impoliteness, intercultural business discourse, theoretical and methodological approaches to interlanguage pragmatics, speech acts in second/foreign languages and corporate culture communication introduces new and emergent fields, such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Crisis Communication in a cross-cultural perspective includes more than 20 articles and a helpful subject index Frontmatter Table of Contents Introduction 1. Cultural scripts and intercultural communication 2. Compliment and compliment response research: A cross-cultural survey 3. Telephone conversation openings across languages, cultures and settings 4. Intercultural (im)politeness and the micro-macro issue 5. Pragmatics East and West: Similar or different? 6. Intercultural competence and pragmatics research: Examining the interface through studies of intercultural business discourse 7. Exploring the pragmatics of interlanguage pragmatics: Definition by design 8. Theoretical and methodological approaches in interlanguage pragmatics 9. Pragmatic challenges for second language learners 10. The acquisition of terms of address in a second language 11. Longitudinal studies in interlanguage pragmatics 12. The Pragmatics of English as a lingua franca 13. Assessing learnability in second language pragmatics 14. The teaching of speech acts in second and foreign language instructional contexts 15. Correcting others and self-correcting in business and professional discourse and textbooks. 16. Testing interlanguage pragmatic knowledge 17. Pragmatics and research into corporate communication 18. Credibility in corporate discourse 19. Corporate crisis communication across cultures 20. The pragmatics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across cultures 21. Corporate culture in a global age: Starbucks’ “Social Responsibility” and the merging of corporate and personal interests Backmatter This handbook provides a comprehensive overview, as well as breaking new ground, in a versatile and fast growing field. It contains 4 sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication, covering a wide range of topics, from speech acts and politeness issues to Lingua Franca and Corporate Crises Communication. The approach is theoretical, methodological as well as applied, with a focus on authentic, interactional data. All articles are written by renowned leading specialists, who provide in-depth, up-to-date overviews, and view new directions and visions for future research

This new landmark series of thirteen self-contained handbooks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the entire field of pragmatics. It is based on a wide conception of pragmatics as the study of intentional human interaction in social and cultural contexts. The series reflects, appraises and structures a field that is exceptionally vast, unusually heterogeneous and still rapidly expanding. In-depth articles by leading experts from around the world discuss the foundations, major theories and most recent developments of pragmatics including philosophical, cognitive, sociocultural, contrastive and diachronic perspectives.

A handbook that provides a comprehensive overview. It contains 4 sections: Contrastive, Cross-cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Teaching and Testing of Second/Foreign Language Pragmatics, and Pragmatics in Corporate Culture Communication. Contrastive, Cross-cultural And Intercultural Pragmatics -- Interlanguage Pragmatics -- Teaching And Testing Of Second/foreign Language Pragmatics -- Pragmatics In Corporate Culture Communication. Edited By Anna Trosborg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.