‘You’re very rich, right?’: Personal finance as an (in)appropriate or (im)polite conversational topic among Asian ELF users

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Notational conventions IX
5. Contributors XI
6. Findings and developments in ELF pragmatics research: An introduction 1
7. Part 1: Developments in ELF pragmatic theory
8. Accommodation in ELF: Where from? Where now? Where next? 17
9. Pragmatic strategies in ELF communication: Key findings and a way forward 35
10. From cross to inter to trans – *cultural pragmatics on the move: The need for expanding methodologies in lingua franca research 55
11. (Im)politeness in video-mediated first conversations amongst speakers of English as a lingua franca 81
12. Part 2: Pragmalinguistic studies in English as a lingua franca
13. The pragmatics of other-initiated repair in ELF interactions among Southeast Asians 107
14. Pragmatic strategies of Asian ELF users in institutional settings 127
15. Interjections in spoken ELF interactions 147
16. Part 3: Sociopragmatic studies in English as a lingua franca
17. ‘You’re very rich, right?’: Personal finance as an (in)appropriate or (im)polite conversational topic among Asian ELF users 167
18. From SLA pragmatics to ELF pragmatics: (Re)conceptualising norms of appropriateness 189
19. Unpacking pragmatic norms of Chinese speakers of English for English as a lingua franca (ELF) communication 203
20. Where to now? Future directions in ELF pragmatics research 221
21. Index 237