{"product_id":"intercultural-pragmatics-9780199892655","title":"Intercultural Pragmatics","description":"Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have different first languages and cultures, yet communicate in a common language. The field first emerged in the early 21st century, joining two seemingly antagonistic approaches to\u003cbr\u003epragmatics research: the cognitive-philosophical approach, which considers intention as an \u003cem\u003ea priori\u003c\/em\u003e mental state of the speaker, and the sociocultural-interactional approach, which considers it as a \u003cem\u003epost factum\u003c\/em\u003e construct created by both speaker and hearer though conversation. Istvan Kecskes, an\u003cbr\u003eearly proponent of intercultural pragmatics, was among the first to propose merging the two to form the socio-cognitive approach now core to the field. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIntercultural Pragmatics\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book on the subject, Kecskes establishes the foundations of the field, boldly combining the pragmatic view of cooperation with the cognitive view of egocentrism in order to incorporate emerging features of communication. He argues that people cooperate by\u003cbr\u003egenerating and formulating intention that is relevant to the given actual situational context. At the same time, however, because of their egocentrism they activate the most salient information to their attention in the construction and comprehension of utterances. \u003cbr\u003eWithin this approach, interlocutors are considered as social beings searching for meaning with individual minds embedded in a socio-cultural collectivity, and intention is a cooperation-directed practice that is governed by relevance which depends on actual situational experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntercultural pragmatics is a rapidly-growing field, and the only subfield of pragmatics to incorporate features of intercultural interaction into mainstream pragmatics. This volume offers both a valuable synthesis of current research and a new way to think about pragmatics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Istvan Kecskes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199892655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIstvan Kecskes \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Linguistics and education at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and Editor-in-Chief of the journals \u003cem\u003eIntercultural Pragmatics\u003c\/em\u003e (De Gruyter), \u003cem\u003eChinese as a Second Language Research\u003c\/em\u003e (De Gruyter) and the Mouton Series in Pragmatics. He is the co-editor of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Language Aggression and Conflict\u003c\/em\u003e (Benjamins).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937668644979,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":96.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9dba819a-e0c7-4c17-8f19-e6c8d30be0b2.jpg?v=1647995374","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/intercultural-pragmatics-9780199892655","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}