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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Comparison
Please note this is a comparison between Version 1 by Dean Liu and Version 2 by Dean Liu.

Cross-cultural pragmatics is a field of pragmatics that examines how speakers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds use and interpret language in context. It investigates how culturally shaped conventions, communicative expectations, and sociopragmatic norms influence the production and interpretation of speech acts, the expression of interpersonal relationships, and the management of interaction [1][2]. The field distinguishes differences in the linguistic forms used to perform communicative actions from differences in the social norms governing their appropriateness and interpretation, while examining how contextual and cultural knowledge contributes to pragmatic meaning [1][2]. It is related to intercultural communication but is specifically concerned with the pragmatic dimensions of language use and interpretation across cultural contexts.

  • cross-cultural communication
  • pragmatics
  • speech acts
  • sociopragmatic norms

Linguistic and Cultural Studies • Plant Science • Agricultural and Biological Sciences • Life Sciences

References

  1. Juliane House; Dániel Z. Kádár. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2021. [CrossRef]
  2. Stefanie Stadler. Cross‐Cultural Pragmatics; Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, United States, 2012. [CrossRef]
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