The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics

The first overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics, with chapters on key concepts and research directions.

Istvan Kecskes (Edited by)

9781108839532, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 October 2022

800 pages
25 x 17.5 x 5.2 cm, 1.66 kg

Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their native tongue, and with native speakers of the language of interaction? Bringing together a globally-representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides an authoritative overview to this fascinating field of study, as well as a theoretical framework. Chapters are grouped into 5 thematic areas: theoretical foundation, key issues in Intercultural Pragmatics research, the interface between Intercultural Pragmatics and related disciplines, Intercultural Pragmatics in different types of communication, and language learning. It addresses key concepts and research issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, and will trigger fresh lines of enquiry and generate new research questions. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading not only for scholars of pragmatics, but also of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, communication, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and second language teaching and learning.

Part I. Theoretical Foundation: 1. Post-Gricean pragmatics for intercultural communication Kasia Jaszczolt
2. Relevance theory and intercultural interaction Jacques Moeschler
3. Cognitive psychology in pragmatics Rachel Giora
4. The theoretical framework of intercultural pragmatics Istvan Kecskes
Part II. Key Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics Research: 5. The cultural, contextual and computational dimensions of common ground Brian Nolan
6. Role of context Anita Fetzer
7. Sources of (mis)understanding in intercultural interactions Jagdish Kaur
8. Creativity and idiomaticity in intercultural interactions Marie-Luise Pitzl
9. Metaphors in intercultural communication Marianna Bolognesi
10. Common ground in linguistic theory and internet pragmatics: forms of dynamic, multicultural interaction Elke Diedrichsen
11. Vague language from a pragmatic perspective Grace Zhang
12. Humor in intercultural interactions Kerry Mullan and Christine Béal
13. Emotion in intercultural interactions Laura Alba
14. Research methods in intercultural pragmatics Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Part III. Interface of Intercultural Pragmatics and Related Disciplines: 15. Semiotics and intercultural pragmatics Marcel Danesi
16. Sociopragmatics and intercultural interaction Michael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang
17. An English-as-a-lingua-franca perspective on intercultural pragmatics Barbara Seidlhofer and Henry Widdowson
18. Intercultural rhetoric Ulla Connor
19. Politeness and rapport management Helen-Spencer-Oatey
20. Corpus-based intercultural pragmatic research Jesus Romero-Trillo
Part IV. Intercultural Pragmatics in Different Types of Communication: 21. Visual and multimodal communication across cultures Charles Forceville
22. Intercultural teamwork via videoconferencing technology: A multimodal (inter)action analysis Sigrid Norris and Jarret Geenen
23. Intercultural communication in computer-mediated discourse Carmen Maiz-Arevalo
24. Intercultural aspects of business communication Liu Ping
25. Intercultural pragmatics in healthcare communication Maria Grazia Rossi and Fabricio Macagno
26. Academic and professional discourse in intercultural pragmatics María Luisa Carrió Pastor
27. The dynamic model of meaning approach: Analyzing the interculturality of conspiracy theory in far-right populist discourses Fabienne Baider
Part V. Language Learning: 28. Pragmatic competence Elly Ifantidou
29. Pragmatic awareness in intercultural language learning Troy McConachy
30. Interculturality and the study abroad experience: Pragmatic and sociolinguistic development Martin Howard and Rachel Shiverly
31. Intercultural mediation in language learning Anthony Liddicoat
32. Interaction in the multilingual classrooms Marie Källkvist, Erica Sandlund, Pia Sundqvist and Henrik Gyllstad.

Subject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG]