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Ethnopragmatics : understanding discourse in cultural context /
Using cultural scripts and semantic explications, the authors show how speech practices can be contextualised and understood in terms of the values, norms and beliefs of speakers themselves. These fascinating studies cover a gamut of culturally shaped ways of speaking from settings around the world...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Applications of cognitive linguistics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Using cultural scripts and semantic explications, the authors show how speech practices can be contextualised and understood in terms of the values, norms and beliefs of speakers themselves. These fascinating studies cover a gamut of culturally shaped ways of speaking from settings around the world - Australia, China, Colombia, Ghana, Japan, and Singapore. The book also serves as an introduction to powerful new techniques for pragmatic analysis which have emerged from 20 years of cross-linguistic semantic research. Key features: The book presents case studies from a diverse range of languages. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3110911116 9783110911114 |
| ISSN: | 1861-4078 ; |