Developing contrastive pragmatics interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives /

• Other Authors: Pütz, Martin, 1955-, Neff-van Aertselaer, JoAnne.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.
• Series: Studies on language acquisition ; 31.
• Subjects: Pragmatics.; Intercultural communication.; Interlanguage (Language learning); Second language acquisition.; REFERENCE.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.; Electronic books.
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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 contributi...

Table of Contents:

• Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics; A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding; Sociocultural conceptualizations: Schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German; An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar: Cultural scripts in contrast; Argumentation patterns in different languages: An analysis of metadiscourse markers in English and Spanish texts; The management of global cultural diversity in ELT materials