Chapter 3. Cross-cultural pragmatics and different cultural values

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: semantics and pragmatics 1
5. Chapter 2. Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts 25
6. Chapter 3. Cross-cultural pragmatics and different cultural values 67
7. Chapter 4. Describing conversational routines 131
8. Chapter 5. Speech acts and speech genres across languages and cultures 149
9. Chapter 6. The semantics of illocutionary forces 197
10. Chapter 7. Italian reduplication: its meaning and its cultural significance 255
11. Chapter 8. Interjections across cultures 285
12. Chapter 9. Particles and illocutionary meanings 341
13. Chapter 10. Boys will be boys: even 'truisms' are culture- specific 391
14. Chapter 11. Conclusion: semantics as a key to cross-cultural pragmatics 453
15. Notes 457
16. Bibliography 461
17. Subject and name index 487
18. Index of words and phrases 497
19. Backmatter 503