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    This book introduces intercultural pragmatics, a subfield of pragmatics that examines language use in intercultural interactions. It focuses on how interlocutors cooperate and comprehend utterances based on their intentions and the context, while also being influenced by their own socio-cultural backgrounds. The book combines intention-based pragmatics with cognitive approaches and offers insights into communication between individuals from different cultures. Intercultural pragmatics is a growing area of research that analyzes features of intercultural communication.

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    This book introduces intercultural pragmatics, a subfield of pragmatics that examines language use in intercultural interactions. It focuses on how interlocutors cooperate and comprehend utterances based on their intentions and the context, while also being influenced by their own socio-cultural backgrounds. The book combines intention-based pragmatics with cognitive approaches and offers insights into communication between individuals from different cultures. Intercultural pragmatics is a growing area of research that analyzes features of intercultural communication.

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    This book introduces intercultural pragmatics, a subfield of pragmatics that examines language use in intercultural interactions. It focuses on how interlocutors cooperate and comprehend utterances based on their intentions and the context, while also being influenced by their own socio-cultural backgrounds. The book combines intention-based pragmatics with cognitive approaches and offers insights into communication between individuals from different cultures. Intercultural pragmatics is a growing area of research that analyzes features of intercultural communication.

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    INTERCULTURAL

    PRAGMATICS
    Istvan Kecskes, Professor of Linguistics and
    Education, State University of New York
    This is the first book about Intercultural Pragmatics that
    focuses on language use in intercultural interaction.
    Intercultural Pragmatics is rooted in the socio-cognitive
    approach (SCA) that combines the intention-based,
    pragmatic view of cooperation with the cognitive view of
    egocentrism to incorporate emerging features of
    communication. In this approach people cooperate by
    generating and formulating intention that is relevant to
    the given actual situational context. At the same time
    their egocentrism means that they activate the most
    salient information to their attention in the construction
    (speaker) and comprehension (hearer) of utterances. In
    this approach interlocutors are considered as social
    beings searching for meaning with individual minds
    embedded in a socio-cultural collectivity.
    Intercultural Pragmatics is a rapidly-growing field, and the
    only subfield of pragmatics to incorporate features of
    intercultural interaction into mainstream pragmatics. This
    volume offers both a valuable synthesis of current
    research and a new way to think about pragmatics.


    About the author
    Istvan Kecskes is Professor of
    Linguistics and Education at the State
    University of New York, Albany. He is
    the President of the American
    Pragmatics Association and Editor-in-
    Chief of the journals Intercultural
    Pragmatics (De Gruyter), Chinese as a
    Second Language Research (De
    Gruyter) and the Mouton Series in
    Pragmatics. He is the founding co-
    editor of the Journal of Language
    Aggression and Conflict (Benjamins).

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    Istvan Kecskes, the internationally renowned forefather of intercultural pragmatics, has now
    written THE book on the subject. Professor Kecskes is an invaluable guide for exploring the
    sociocultural and cognitive dimensions of interculturaland intraculturalcommunication and
    their implications for the study of pragmatics.
    - Laurence Horn, Yale University

    In the increasingly globalized and translingual world, intercultural communication is one of the
    greatest practical problems facing millions of people on a daily basis. How do they manage to
    communicate (if they do)? This is the central question of the new field of intercultural pragmatics, of
    which Istvan Kecskes is the spiritus movens. It is also the question at the heart of Kecskess new
    book Intercultural Pragmatics. Few questions addressed by linguists today could be more important
    and more fascinating.
    - Anna Wierzbicka, Austral National University
    This book introduces an important new dimension to
    the field of pragmatics, shedding much light on social
    interaction across cultural lines and on the way that
    language is used in these interactions.
    - Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and The
    Stuff of Thought.

    Intercultural Pragmatics presents a valuable new
    perspective on how individual and cultural factors are
    intertwined in communication. Moving beyond the
    traditional pragmatic concern with utterance-length
    exchanges among monolingual speakers, and focusing
    instead on the distinctive features of discourse-length
    exchanges among speakers with different languages and
    cultures, it provides genuinely important insights into an
    exciting new field of research.
    - Deirdre Wilson, University of London

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