Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics 1
5. Part I. English
6. The structure of requests in Irish English and English English 35
7. Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics 69
8. Small talk in England, Ireland, and the USA 99
9. Gratitude in British and New Zealand radio programmes: Nothing but gushing? 141
10. Part II. Dutch and German
11. The distribution of T/V pronouns in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch 181
12. The pragmatics of a pluricentric language: A comparison between Austrian German and German German 211
13. Requesting in German as a pluricentric language 245
14. Part III. Spanish and French
15. Different realizations of solidarity politeness: Comparing Venezuelan and Argentinean invitations 269
16. Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastal Spanish 307
17. Apologizing in French French and Canadian French 333
18. Name index 355
19. Subject index 363