ISBN:
9789027285966
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (260 p.)
Series Statement:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Parallel Title:
Print version The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication : Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987. Volume 3: The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication
DDC:
306.4/4
Keywords:
Pragmatics ; Congresses
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive level and at the level of pragmatic theory construction, should be a target of pragmatics as a discipline. A clear view is needed of the restrictions on adaptability involving potential fields of conflict in intercultural and international communication. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate
Description / Table of Contents:
THE PRAGMATICS OF INTERCULTURAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Intelcultural and international communication: Introduction; How much culture is there in intercultural communication?; Accidentand method in the study of intercultural communication: Colonial description of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo; Understanding in Intercultural Encounters; Talking a person into interethnic distinction: a discourse analytic case study; Verbal listening behavior in conversations between Japanese and Americans
Description / Table of Contents:
Fieldwork as a form of intercultural communicationIntercultural dimensions of pragmatics in fílm synchronisation; Objectivism in pragmatics as a hindrance to intercultural communication; Foreigner talk revisited: Limits on accommodation to nonfluent speakers; A pragmatic perspective on international communication; References; Index of names; Index of subjects; The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series;
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Description based upon print version of record
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