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<html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <body> <p> The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'.</p> <P>The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English
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- Author
- Cliff Goddard (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110188745
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Literary Fiction, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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