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Ethnopragmatics : understanding discourse in cultural context / edited by Cliff Goddard.

Contributor(s): Goddard, Cliff
Language: English Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton De Gruyter, 2006.Description: [vii], 278p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 9783110188745; 3110188740
Contents:
Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm / Cliff Goddard; Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations / Anna Wierzbicka; "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English / Cliff Goddard; Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore / Jock Onn Wong; Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face?: emotionality and facial expression in Chinese / Zhengdao Ye; Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world / Rie Hasada; The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish / Catherine E. Travis; "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages / Felix K. Ameka
Holdings
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Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KK [GOD-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M45152
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Includes bibliography (p. 262-266) and index

Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm / Cliff Goddard; Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations / Anna Wierzbicka; "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English / Cliff Goddard; Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore / Jock Onn Wong; Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face?: emotionality and facial expression in Chinese / Zhengdao Ye; Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world / Rie Hasada; The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish / Catherine E. Travis; "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages / Felix K. Ameka