Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives

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Intercultural Pragmatics is a large and diverse field encompassing a wide range of approaches, methods, and theories. This volume draws scholars together from a broad range of cognitive, philosophical, and sociopragmatic perspectives on language use in order to lay the path for a mutually informing and enriching dialogue across subfields and perceived barriers to doing pragmatics interculturally. Preface Contents List of contributors Introduction 1. Introduction Part I: Socio-cognitive and experimental pragmatics 2. The emergence of common ground 3. Overcoming differences and achieving common ground: Why speaker and hearer make the effort and how they go about it 4. “Is there a tumour in your humour?”: On misunderstanding and miscommunication in conversational humour 5. Notes for a restrictive theory of procedural meaning 6. Deniability and explicatures 7. The acquisition of loanword pragmatics: An exploration 8. (Im)politeness: Metalinguistic labels and concepts in English Part II: Philosophical and discourse pragmatics 9. What lies beyond: Untangling the web 10. The true provenance of self-reference: A case for salience-based contextualism 11. Transparent reports as free-form idioms 12. How speaker meaning, explicature and implicature work together 13. Temporally closed situations for the Chinese perfective LE 了 14. Acategorical pragmatic markers: From thematic analysis to adaptive management in discourse 15. Contrastive discourse relations in context: Evidence from monologic and dialogic editing tasks 16. Pragmatics and multimodality. A reflection on multimodal pragmastylistics Part III: Interpersonal and societal pragmatics 17. Pragmatic competence and pragmatic variation 18. Offers in English 19. The intercultural speaker abroad 20. Pragmatics and children’s literature 21. Unloading the weapon: Act and tact 22. The meanings and contents of aesthetic statements Index