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Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study

  • Wei Ren , Chih-Ying Lin and Helen Woodfield
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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Content v
  3. Contributors ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Linguistic and cognitive aspects
  6. Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics 7
  7. The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek γiati and epeiδi 29
  8. Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice’s model in the context of (im)politeness theories 55
  9. Irony: making as if we pretend to echo 85
  10. Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence 105
  11. Context dynamism in classroom discourse 145
  12. Socio-cultural aspects
  13. Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings 163
  14. A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect 181
  15. The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics 219
  16. Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication 239
  17. Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures 263
  18. Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study 283
  19. Discourse and stylistics
  20. The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts 317
  21. Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube 343
  22. Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse 367
  23. Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction 395
  24. Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals 421
  25. Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse 439
  26. A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation 459
  27. Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press 479
  28. Subject index 493
  29. Person index 498
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