Istvan Kecskes

English as a Lingua Franca

The Pragmatic Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107103801
• ISBN-10: 1107103800
• Artikelnr.: 56712908

Autorenporträt

Istvan Kecskes is Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. He is author of Foreign Language and Mother Tongue (2000, with Tunde Papp), Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2 (2003) and Intercultural Pragmatics (2013). He is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca
2. Linguistic creativity in ELF
3. Interactional competence
4. Sociocultural background knowledge
5. Speaker's intention
6. The semantics-pragmatics interface
7. Implicatures
8. Modality
9. Dialogic sequences and odd structures
Epilogue.