"Cultural Scripts": a New Medium for Ethnopragmatic Instruction

Author(s)
Goddard, Cliff
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the potential applications of one stream of cognitive linguistics - the cross-linguistic semantics of Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - to the teaching of ethnopragmatics (cultural pragmatics). To begin with, therefore, some remarks on conventional approaches to linguistic pragmatics are in order. Pragmatic differences between languages have been addressed within several frameworks, including the ethnography of communication, contrastive pragmatics, and linguistic anthropology. In general, work within these different frameworks assumes that in any speech community there will be certain shared understandings (variously termed "rules of speaking", "norms of interaction", "preferred discourse strategies", etc.) about how it is appropriate to speak in particular, culturally construed situations.
Citation
Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching, p. 143-163
ISBN
3110173573
Link
Language
en
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Series
Studies on language acquisition
Edition
1
Title
"Cultural Scripts": a New Medium for Ethnopragmatic Instruction
Type of document
Book Chapter
Entity Type
Publication

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