Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Having Been Established As A Field In Its Own Right For The Last Decade, Intercultural Pragmatics Is Increasingly Being Recognized As An Important Area Of Research Among Scholars Working In Pragmatics. The Present Volume Is A Collection Of Selected Papers From The 6th International Conference On Intercultural Pragmatics And Communication - Admittedly The Biggest Venue For Researchers In The Area, And Comprises Contributions That Report On Recent Research That Deals With Or Can Directly Inform Work In Intercultural Pragmatics. Given The Breadth Of Research Areas That Are Represented Herein, Ranging From Lingua Franca And Business Communication To The Study Of Cultural Perceptions, Translation And Pragmatic Development, This Volume Is Bound To Be Of Interest To Not Only Students And Scholars Engaged In The Area Of Intercultural Pragmatics, But Also To All Those With A More General Interest In The Sociocultural Turn In The Study Of Pragmatics. Introduction / Istvan Kecskes And Stavros Assimakopoulos -- The Socio-cultural Turn In Pragmatics -- Determinacy, Distance And Intensity In Intercultural Communication : An Emancipatory Approach / Robert Crawshaw -- Western Grice? Lying In A Cross-cultural Dimension / Jörg Meibauer -- Lingua Franca Communication -- Why Is Miscommunication More Common In Everyday Life Than In Lingua Franca Conversation? / Arto Mustajoki -- Burn The Antifa Traitors At The Stake... : Transnational Political Cyber-exchanges, Proximisation Of Emotions / Fabienne H. Baider And Maria Constantinou -- Business Communication -- The Interpersonal Pragmatics Of Intercultural Financial Discourse : A Contrastive Analysis Of European Vs. Asian Earnings Conference Calls / Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli -- Face-threatening E-mail Complaint Negotiation In A Multilingual Business Environment : A Discursive Analysis Of Refusal And Disagreement Strategies / Sofie Decock And Anneleen Spiessens -- Cultural Perceptions -- Auto- And Hetero-stereotypes In The Mutual Perception Of Germans And Spaniards / Jessica Hass And Sylvia Wächter -- The Interactive (self-)reflexive Construction Of Culture-related Key Words -- Ulrike Schröder -- It's Really Insulting To Say Something Like That To Anyone : An Investigation Of English And German Native Speakers' Impoliteness Perceptions / Gila A. Schauer -- Translation -- Identities And Impoliteness In Translated Harry Potter Novels / Monika Pleyer -- Presuppositions, Paralanguage, Visual Kinesics : Three Culture-pragmatic Categories Of Errors And Misunderstanding In Translation And Interpreting Illustrated On The Basis Of The Language Pair German, Greek / Olaf Immanuel Seel -- Pragmatic Development -- Development Of Pragmatic Routines By Japanese Learners In A Study Abroad Context / Naoko Osuka -- A Cross-sectional Study Of Syrian Efl Learners' Pragmatic Development : Towards A Taxonomy Of Modification In Interlanguage Requests / Ziyad Ali And Helen Woodfield -- The Pragmatic Competence Of Student-teachers Of Italian L2 / Phyllisienne Gauci, Elisa Ghia And Sandro Caruana -- Adaptive Management And Bilingual Education : A Longitudinal Corpus-based Analysis Of Pragmatic Markers In Teacher Talk / Laura Maguire And Jesús Romero-trillo -- Index. Edited By Istvan Kecskes, Stavros Assimakopoulos. Collection Of Selected Papers From The 6th International Conference On Intercultural Pragmatics And Communication. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.