Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Pragmatic variation by gender in market service encounters in Mexico 17
7. Chapter 2. Cross-cultural stances in online discussions 49
8. Chapter 3. Pragmatic variation in therapeutic discourse 81
9. Chapter 4. Disagreement and sociolinguistic variables 113
10. Chapter 5. Variation in the pragmatic use of conventional expressions 141
11. Chapter 6. Variation in NS-learner interactions 175
12. Pragmatic variation in learner perception 209
13. Chapter 8. Variationist sociolinguistics, L2 sociopragmatic competence, and corpus analysis of classroom-based synchronous computer-mediated discourse 239
14. Research methods for describing variation in intercultural pragmatics for cultures in contact and conflict 271
15. Chapter 10. Between pragmatics and sociolinguistics 295
16. Chapter 11. Conclusions 319
17. Index 337