Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics
Edited by Ulrike Schröder, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 7:1 (2020) v, 145 pp.
Milene Mendes de Oliveira
List of John Benjamins publications for which Milene Mendes de Oliveira plays a role.
Title
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2020. Face and cultural conceptualizations in German-Brazilian business exchanges. Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), pp. 63–83
Following up on recent calls for studies dealing with first-order understandings of face (Arundale 2013; Haugh 2013), this paper presents arguments in favor of an empirical investigation of cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011) underlying these first-order (or emic) models. The arguments are… read more | Article
2020. Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics: Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics. Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), pp. 1–14
Is it possible to bridge the gap between the predominantly functionalist approaches to culture in pragmatic research, on the one hand, and cognitively based Cultural Linguistics, whose fundamental aim is to look at the conceptual underneath observable and situationally bound discourse, on the… read more | Introduction
2017. Conceptualizations of respect in business negotiations : A research note. Cultural Linguistic Contributions to World Englishes, Wolf, Hans-Georg, Frank Polzenhagen and Arne Peters (eds.), pp. 254–272
International business negotiations are prone to several difficulties, one of the most fundamental of which being differences in cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011). In order to explore how Brazilians and Germans conceptualize respect in business negotiations, interviews in English with… read more | Article