This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are reali

Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time la

Communication Across Cultures remains an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and education

This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims

This book provides an engaging introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics. It is essential reading for both academics and students in pragmatics, applied linguis