Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction

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Walter de Gruyter, 2003 - Intercultural communication - 502 pages
 

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semantics and praglllatics
1
Chapter 2 Different cultures different languages different speech acts
25
Chapter 3 Crosscultural pragmatics and different cultural values
67
Chapter 4 Describing conversational routines
131
Chapter 5 Speech acts and speech genres across languages and cultures
149
Chapter 6 The semantics of illocutionary forces
197
its meaning and its cultural significance
255
Chapter 8 Interjections across cultures
285
Chapter 9 Particles and illocutionary meanings
341
even truisllls are culturespecific
391
selDantics as a key to crosscultural pragmatics
453
Backmatter
457
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