Intercultural Pragmatics

In Intercultural Pragmatics, the first book on the subject, Istvan Kecskes establishes the foundations of the field, boldly combining the pragmatic view of cooperation with the cognitive view of egocentrism in order to incorporate emerging features of communication.

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 co-editor of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (Benjamins).

Introduction
1. Current pragmatic theories
2. The socio-cognitive approach
3. Pragmatic competence
4. Encyclopaedic knowledge, cultural models, interculturality
5. Formulaic language use
6. Context
7. Common ground
8. Salience
9. Politeness and impoliteness
10. Methods of analysis
Epilogue