Researching Sociopragmatic Variability de K. Beeching

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability

K. Beeching

H. Woodfield

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers across different languages and varieties of a language, investigating native and non-native usages and variation across gender, situation and addressee.

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1. Introduction; Kate Beeching and Helen Woodfield PART I: VARIATIONAL PRAGMATICS 2. Pragmalinguistic and Gender Variation in U.S. Café Service Encounters; Lisa N. Fink and J. César Félix-Brasdefer 3. The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments; Chih-Ying Lin 4. Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals; Wei Ren 5. Revisiting You Know Using the BNC WebQuery System: A Sociopragmatic Analysis; Qun Zheng 6. Compliment Responses Among Malaysian Multilinguals; Jennifer Quah Xiao Min PART II: INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS 7. Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers' and ESL Learners' Requests; Helen Woodfield 8. Variability in Native and Non-native Use of Pragmatic Markers: The Example of Well in Role Play Data; Kate Beeching PART III: CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS 9. Well in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective; Karin Aijmer 10. Combining Self-report and Role-play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: Towards a Methodological Synthesis; María Jesus Barros García and Marina Terkourafi PART IV: SOCIOPRAGMATIC COMPETENCE AND THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM 11. Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: Towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL; Juliette Delahaie 12. The Application of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Research Findings to the Teaching of Pragmatic Competence; Patricia Pullin

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Karin Aijmer, Gothenberg University, SwedenMaría Jesus Barros García, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKJuliette Delahaie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, FranceCésar Félix-Brasdefer, Indiana University, USALisa N. Fink, Indiana University, USAChih-Ying Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Patricia Pullin, University of Applied Sciences, Vaud, SwitzerlandJennifer Quah Xiao Min, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKWei Ren, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, ChinaMarina Terkourafi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USAHelen Woodfield, University of Bristol, UKQun Zheng, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China