This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computer-
mediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed …

Congratulating others is an essential aspect of human social interaction and a speech act
that is realised differently in languages. This study aims to investigate the pragmalinguistic …

Studies have shown that synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) can
improve oral and pragmatic skills of language learners. This chapter analyzes the text-based …

This study proposes a local grammar approach to intercultural speech act studies, which is
demonstrated by an investigation into apologies in Hong Kong, Singaporean, Indian, and …

Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach Page 1
Identifying idiolect in forensic authorship attribution: an n-gram textbite approach Alison …

The aim of this paper is to conduct a contextually and culturally sensitive investigation of
how impoliteness works in Peninsular Spanish discourse. This is achieved by adopting a …

This study examines pragmatic acquisition of requests for English-speaking learners of
Spanish. This research expands upon previous work by investigating the acquisition of …

Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the
globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their …