Studies in Comparative Pragmatics

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Studies in Comparative Pragmatics is written by Juhani Härmä and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527542114 (ISBN 10) and 9781527542112 (ISBN 13).

In the current discourse in pragmatics, multi-perspective methods are seen as the best way to understand language use in context. Within this discussion, the volume adopts diverse approaches to pragmatics, and focuses on comparing a wide selection of languages, including English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Polish, and Swedish. The contributions deal with grammatical expressions, prosody, textual genres and speech acts, which occur in different social interactions and in multicultural environments, including foreign language learning and lingua franca situations. Each topic is analysed by comparing its usage in at least two different languages or by contrasting the linguistic behaviour of different groups of language users.