This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-
breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross …

Intercultural pragmatics is usually associated with pragmatic differences between different
languages. This seems to be the default reading of the term. However, this reading tacitly …

In this chapter I focus on the challenges that pragmatic aspects of language use present to
adults as they learn to communicate in another language and culture. The study of …

An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning–yet
developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. This …

Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)
interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to …

This chapter focuses on recent research in cross-cultural pragmatics (CCP) as distinct from
interlanguage pragmatics (IP). The essential difference between the two lies in the …

Reflecting the international nature of the field, this reader covers a wide range of language
and cultural contexts: Arabic, Chinese, English (British, American, Australian and South …

One of the important 'current issues in intercultural pragmatics' is how conceptual,
theoretical, and empirical developments in this field can be used to help reconstitute the …

In this handbook series, pragmatics is understood in a broad sense as the scientific study of
all aspects of linguistic behavior. These aspects include patterns of linguistic action …