Analyzing Pragmatic Variation in English
New Developments in Contrastive, Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics
Ronald Geluykens & Ilka Flöck (eds.)
University of Oldenburg; University of Lüneburg
The past few decades have witnessed a veritable research boom in interlanguage, cross-cultural, and contrastive pragmatics, as well as in the area of (im)politeness, resulting in a widening perspective with regard to data types, objects of inquiry, and analytical methods. The present edition takes stock of recent developments in the field, as well as offering a selection of empirical papers that explore new research avenues, with a focus on different types of variation in English, on the use of a variety of different data collection procedures, and on a variety of face-threatening acts.
In the first part of this collection, it is discussed how these three areas of pragmatic research relate to, and differ from, each other, as well as examining a number of methodological issues relevant for studying pragmatic variation. The second part brings together a number of papers on interlanguage English, with an emphasis on the benefits and drawbacks of using controlled elicitation data. The contributions in the third and final section focus on contrastive and cross-cultural pragmatics, with special reference to the use of more naturalistic data.
Table of Contents:
PART I: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Ronald Geluykens & Ilka Flöck
Analyzing Pragmatic Variation: An Introduction
Ronald Geluykens
Methodology Revisited: An Evaluation of Research Methods in Pragmatics
Ilka Flöck & Ronald Geluykens
Comparing Empirical Methodologies in Pragmatics: A Meta-Analysis of Research on Directive Speech Acts
PART II: INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS AND CONTROLLED ELICITATION DATA
Ronald Geluykens & Bettina Kraft
Social, Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Variation in Complaints: The Usefulness of DCTs for Quantitative Variational Analysis
Christina Peters & Ronald Geluykens
Pragmatic Transfer in Native and Interlanguage Refusals: A Contrastive Analysis of English and German
Hanna Agena & Ronald Geluykens
Pragmatic Transfer and Social Variation in Interlanguage Requests
Yan Jiang & Jean-Marc Dewaele
Self-reported Frequency of Swearing in Chinese Dialects, Putonghua, and English in the Speech of Chinese Multilingual University Students
PART III: CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS AND NATURAL(ISTIC) DATA
Katharina Heisterkamp & Ronald Geluykens
Responses to Thanks in Irish English: A Comparison of Elicited and Naturalistic Data
Jill-Dean Rose & Ilka Flöck
Explicit Apologies in Fictional Telecinematic Discourse
Alena Jansen & Ilka Flöck
Apologies and Corpus Pragmatics: Comparing a Form-to-Function and Function-to-Form Approach in SPICE-Ireland
Ilka Flöck
Requests in Informal Conversations: A Contrastive Study of English and German
ISBN 9783969392126 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 34. 332pp. 2024.
