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