Xinren Chen: Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Marina Sbisà: Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Ning Yu: The Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Facing differences in conceptualizing “Face” in everyday interacting
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Ever since Goffman examined “face” in social interaction in 1955, researchers in intercultural and sociocultural pragmatics have employed the concept in many ways, and have developed a number of different positions on what the concept entails and on how to study it. Following Goffman, face is uniformly conceptualized as a phenomenon apparent in eve...
Self-translations in multilingual workplace interaction
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
In multi-lingual workplace interaction involving L2-speakers with different levels of proficiency, L1-speakers can be seen to use self-translation of their own prior contributions as a repair-practice to restore intersubjectivity. This paper shows that self-translations are produced in three environments: (a) in response to repair-initiation by rec...
Bruno G. Bara February 28, 1949 to November 7, 2023: A eulogy to a brilliant mind
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
“You’re such an idiot, but I’m only joking”: The perception of mock impoliteness by British and Italian men and women
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Mock impoliteness is a social practice typifying the interaction of close friends consisting in the use of rude jokes or utterances that signify the speaker’s intent to show solidarity and intimacy with the interlocutor. Nonetheless, as an impolite load is still carried by such utterances, how targets of mock impoliteness will react to them, namely...
Actuality, indexicality, and knowledge
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
After summarizing linguistic evidence against the thesis that actuality terms are indexical, I examine conceptual and epistemological arguments offered in favor of an indexical analysis. I argue that an indexical semantics provides no explanation of how we know what is actually the case, and no grounds for postulating a contingent a priori. Truth i...
When cancellation becomes unreasonable
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Cancellability – one of the most important tests for implicatures – has been attacked from different perspectives, and its reliability challenged by several cases and examples in which conversational implicatures seem to be hard or even impossible to cancel. To account for these phenomena, distinct approaches have been advanced aimed at weakening G...
Towards a dynamic functional proposition for dynamic discourse meaning
Published in Intercultural Pragmatics
Theories of utterance meaning in the post-Gricean tradition have typically focused on the main proposition expressed by the speaker that is recovered by the addressee. In this tradition, successful communication rests on the assumption that speakers and addressees come to a shared understanding of these propositions as they are produced in conversa...
