Contrastive Pragmatics

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Contrastive Pragmatics is written by Wieslaw Oleksy and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 902725009X (ISBN 10) and 9789027250094 (ISBN 13).

This volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium comparationis and its place in the development of contrastive studies as well as the applicability of generalizations proposed by speech-act theorists in contrasting concrete languages and cultures. The second part tackles a number of pragmatic issues involved in second-language learners' written productions, classroom discourse, as well as more general questions pertaining to pragmatic errors and learners' interlanguage. An Index of terms and an Index of names complete the volume.