Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics

In Yan Huang (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford University Press UK (2016)
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This chapter discusses the differences between cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics. While cross-cultural pragmatics compares different cultures, based on the investigation of certain aspects of language use, such as speech acts, behaviour patterns, and language behaviour, intercultural pragmatics focuses on intercultural interactions and investigates the nature of the communicative process among people from different cultures, speaking different first languages. Cross-cultural pragmatics analyses the differences and similarities in the language behaviour of people representing different languages and cultures. Intercultural pragmatics, however—a relatively new discipline—is interested in what happens when representatives of different first languages and cultures communicate using a common language.

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Istvan Kecskes
Lajos Kossuth University of Arts and Sciences (PhD)

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