This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

Intercultural PragmatIcs Page 1 2024 · Volume 21 · Issue 1 Intercultural PragmatIcs edItor-In-chIef
Professor Dr. Istvan Kecskes State University of New York at Albany reVIew edItor Dr. Jesus …

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe
the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within
semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the …

Why is the term" openly gay" so widely used but" openly straight" is not? What are the
unspoken assumptions behind terms like" male nurse,"" working mom," and" white trash" …

This study examines the nature of the discourse of advertising. The focus is on consumer
advertising, which is directed towards the promotion of some product or service to the …

5 IMPLICATURE Page 1 1.5 IMPLICATURE Laurence Horn A year after unveiling implicature
in his William James lectures at Harvard, Paul Grice (1968) published one of the lectures, a …

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field
of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key …