Ethnopragmatics

by Goddard, Cliff

• ISBN13: 9783110188745
• ISBN10: 3110188740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

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. It demonstrates how prevailing cultural attitudes, norms and beliefs can be modelled in a clear, precise and non-ethnocentric fashion.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vi
List of tables	vii
Acknowledgements	vii
1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm	1	(30)
Cliff Goddard
2. Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations	31	(34)
Anna Wierzbicka
3. "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English	65	(34)
Cliff Goddard
4. Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore	99	(28)
Jock Onn Wong
5. Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese	127	(44)
Zhengdao Ye
6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world	171	(28)
Rie Hasada
7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish	199	(32)
Catherine E. Travis
8. "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages	231	(36)
Felix K. Ameka
Author index	267	(6)
General index	273