Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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 contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110196700
• ISBN13: 9783110196702
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary