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Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context

  • Cliff Goddard

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    Abstract

    Using cultural scripts and semantic explications, the authors show how speech practices can be contextualised and understood in terms of the values, norms and beliefs of speakers themselves. These fascinating studies cover a gamut of culturally shaped ways of speaking from settings around the world - Australia, China, Colombia, Ghana, Japan, and Singapore. The book also serves as an introduction to powerful new techniques for pragmatic analysis which have emerged from 20 years of cross-linguistic semantic research.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
    PublisherMouton de Gruyter
    Number of pages278
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9783110188745, 3110188740
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

    Publication series

    NameApplications of Cognitive Linguistics
    No.3

    Keywords

    • Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

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