Developing Contrastive Pragmatics

Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

by Martin Pütz & JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer 2008

E-Book: 456 English pages

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.