Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication (eBook, PDF)

Ethnopragmatics and Semantic Analysis
Redaktion: Mullan, Kerry; Sadow, Lauren; Peeters, Bert

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789813299832
• Artikelnr.: 58252934

Autorenporträt

Kerry Mullan is Associate Professor and Convenor of Languages in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University. She teaches French language and culture, and sociolinguistics. Her main research interests are cross-cultural communication and the differing interactional styles of French and Australian English speakers. She also researches in the areas of intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, language teaching and in humour in social interactions. Her publications include Expressing opinions in French and Australian English discourse: A semantic and interactional analysis (2010) and Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally  (ed. with B. Peeters and C. Béal, 2013).  Bert Peeters is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, and a Gastprofessor at the University of Antwerp. Hismain research interests are in French linguistics, intercultural communication, and language and cultural values. His publications include Les primitifs sémantiques (ed., 1993), The lexicon-encyclopedia interface (ed., 2000), Semantic primes and universal grammar (ed., 2006), Tu ou vous: l'embarras du choix (ed. with N. Ramière, 2009), Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally (ed. with K. Mullan and C. Béal, 2013), andHeart- and soul-like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs (ed., 2019). Lauren Sadow is a sessional academic at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her main research interests are teaching culture, interactional norms, cultural lexicography, and cross-cultural communication. Her PhD thesis created an NSM-based dictionary titled The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers.

Inhaltsangabe

"Lift your game, Cliff!": A portrait of Cliff Goddard.- Cliff Goddard: list of publications.-A brief introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach.- Ethnopragmatics.-TH B C ('hierarchy') in the cultural logic of Vietnamese interaction: an ethnopragmatic perspective.- How people lie in Cantonese and English, and why.- The ethnopragmatics of understatement in English and exaggeration in Italian.- Academic and creative: An ethnopragmatic perspective on English genres of writing.- Conversational Humour.- Ethnopragmatics of hazer.javabi, a valued speech practice in Persian.- "Taking the piss" as a speech practice in Anglo-Australian interactions.- Pile of dead leaves free to a good home: humour in an online community.- Interdisciplinary Approaches.- The comfort of home as an ethical value in Mike Packer's Inheritance.- Romance and Reason: NSM insights in the analytic philosophy of love.- Modelling contested understandings of autism using Minimal English .-Prevalence of the NSM primes in plain Finnish and standard Finnish: findings from newspaper text corpora.