Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction: Pragmatic variation in first and second language contexts
Chapter 1. Pragmatic variation by gender in market service encounters in Mexico
Chapter 2. Cross-cultural stances in online discussions: Pragmatic variation in French and American ways of expressing opinions
Chapter 3. Pragmatic variation in therapeutic discourse: An examination of mitigating devices employed by Dominican female clients and a Cuban American therapist
Chapter 4. Disagreement and sociolinguistic variables: English as a Lingua Franca of Practice in China
Chapter 5. Variation in the pragmatic use of conventional expressions
Chapter 6. Variation in NS-learner interactions: Frames and expectations in pragmatic coconstruction
Pragmatic variation in learner perception: The role of retrospective verbal report in L2 speech act research
Chapter 8. Variationist sociolinguistics, L2 sociopragmatic competence, and corpus analysis of classroom-based synchronous computer-mediated discourse
Research methods for describing variation in intercultural pragmatics for cultures in contact and conflict
Chapter 10. Between pragmatics and sociolinguistics: Where does pragmatic variation fit in?
Chapter 11. Conclusions: Methodological issues in pragmatic variation
Index
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