Culturally Speaking Second Edition: Culture, Communication and Politeness Theory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826493106 ISBN 13: 9780826493101

Publisher: Continuum, 2008

Synopsis

This is an updated second edition of the comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics, providing essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students.This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures.The book includes: an introduction to the key issues in culture and communication; an examination of cross-cultural and intercultural communication; empirical case studies from a variety of languages, including German, Greek, Japanese and Chinese; practical chapters on pragmatics research, recording and analysing data, and projects in intercultural pragmatics; exercises at the end of each chapter; and, a glossary of termsThis second edition of "Culturally Speaking" will be an essential guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers interested in communication across cultures.

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Review:

A comprehensive introduction to cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics for undergraduate and postgraduate students edited by Helen Spencer-Oatey ... The final section on methodology deserves special mention as it includes three practical and most useful chapters introducing students to the wide range of research methods and data-collection techniques in pragmatics research, the recording and analysis of data, and projects in intercultural pragmatics --Year s work in English Studies journal, vol 89, No. 1

About the Author:

Dr Helen Spencer-Oatey is the Director of the Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the University of Warwick, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0826493106
• ISBN 13: 9780826493101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Spencer-Oatey Helen