Variational Pragmatics : A Focus on Regional Varieties in Pluricentric Languages

by Schneider, Klaus P.; Barron, Anne

• ISBN13: 9789027254221
• ISBN10: 9027254222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics	p. 1
English
The structure of requests in Irish English and English English	p. 35
Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics	p. 69
Small talk in England, Ireland, and the USA	p. 99
Gratitude in British and New Zealand radio programmes: Nothing but gushing?	p. 141
Dutch and German
The distribution of T/V pronouns in Netherlands and Belgian Dutch	p. 181
The pragmatics of a pluricentric language: A comparison between Austrian German and German German	p. 211
Requesting in German as a pluricentric language	p. 245
Spanish and French
Different realizations of solidarity politeness: Comparing Venezuelan and Argentinean invitations	p. 269
Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastral Spanish	p. 307
Apologizing in French French and Canadian French	p. 333
Name Index	p. 355
Subject Index	p. 363
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