Book Description: Ethnopragmatics Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 3 Author: Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues Publication Date: 2018 Pages: 352 Publisher: De Gruyter Language: English Subject: Linguistics, Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Communication Summary: Ethnopragmatics Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 3 is a collection of studies that explore how speech practices can be understood from an internal perspective, focusing on the values, norms, and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. 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, using cultural scripts and semantic explications techniques developed over 20 years of work in cross-cultural semantics.

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