Table of contents
Part I.The socio-cultural turn in pragmatics
Chapter 1.Determinacy, distance and intensity in intercultural communication: An emancipatory approach
9
Chapter 2.“Western” Grice? Lying in a cross-cultural dimension
33
Part II.Lingua franca communication
Chapter 3.Why is miscommunication more common in everyday life than in lingua franca conversation?
55
Chapter 4.“Burn the antifa traitors at the stake…:” Transnational political cyber-exchanges, proximisation of emotions
75
Part III.Business communication
Chapter 5.The interpersonal pragmatics of intercultural financial discourse: A contrastive analysis of European vs. Asian earnings conference calls
105
Chapter 6.Face-threatening e-mail complaint negotiation in a multilingual business environment: A discursive analysis of refusal and disagreement strategies
129
Part IV.Cultural perceptions
Chapter 7.Auto- and hetero-stereotypes in the mutual perception of Germans and Spaniards
159
Chapter 8.The interactive (self-)reflexive construction of culture-related key words
181
Chapter 9.“It’s really insulting to say something like that to anyone:” An investigation of English and German native speakers’ impoliteness perceptions
207
Part V.Translation
Chapter 10.Identities and impoliteness in translated Harry Potter novels
231
Chapter 11.Presuppositions, paralanguage, visual kinesics: Three culture-pragmatic categories of errors and misunderstanding in translation and interpreting illustrated on the basis of the language pair German/Greek
255
Part VI.Pragmatic development
Chapter 12.Development of pragmatic routines by Japanese students in a study abroad context
275
Chapter 13.A crosssectional study of Syrian EFL learners’ pragmatic development: Towards a taxonomy of modification in interlanguage requests
297
Chapter 14.The pragmatic competence of student-teachers of Italian L2
323
Chapter 15.Adaptive Management and bilingual education: A longitudinal corpus-based analysis of pragmatic markers in teacher talk
347
Index
367
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