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.
Ulrike Schröder
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrike Schröder plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
2020 Talking about intercultural experiences: The cognitive ‘leap’ into another universe Intercultural Pragmatics and Cultural Linguistics, Schröder, Ulrike, Milene Mendes de Oliveira and Hans-Georg Wolf (eds.), pp. 15–37 | Article
The aim of this paper is to ask how exchange students retrospectively co-construct their first ‘culture shock’ experiences on a verbal, vocal, and visual plane. The results show that the different co-occurring levels of communication in the talk of the students offer various insights into… read more
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 | Introduction
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
2018 Face as an interactional construct in the context of connectedness and separateness: An empirical approach to culture-specific interpretations of face Pragmatics 28:4, pp. 547–572 | Article
In recent work, Arundale proposed a Face Constituting Theory based on the Conjoint Co-Constituting Model of Communication. His main concern is directed towards a shift from the individualistic conception of face and (im)politeness to a non-summative view on communication based on fundamental… read more
2015 Society and culture as container: (Re-)drawing borders and their metaphorical foundation from a communicative and extracommunicative point of view International Journal of Language and Culture 2:1, pp. 38–61 | Article
Within the social sciences and humanities, especially in the field of cultural studies, research has increasingly been dealing with the dissolution of cultural and social boundaries. However, the question of how interactants perceive themselves and construct and describe their interaction space in… read more
2015 Metaphorical blends and their function in discourse on society: A cross-cultural study Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2:1, pp. 50–78 | Article
This article examines two corpora composed of four discourse genres — oral interviews, written interviews, newspaper articles, and non-fiction books — to explore the ways in which ‘society’ is discussed metaphorically in current German and Brazilian discourse. It discusses culture-specific ‘mixed… read more