Misunderstanding, methodology and context in cross-cultural pragmatics
26. Mai 2011
Dr. Robert Crawshaw (Manchester)
Arbeitsgespräch des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kollegs im Rahmen des 6. Workshops zum Schwerpunktthema „Kulturalisierung“
My presentation, which derives from the work of the Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication Project, will briefly consider the rise of cross-cultural pragmatics as a field of study. Against this background, I shall illustrate occurrences of 'complaint' arising from apparent misunderstandiings between language teaching assistants and teachers in French and English schools and address the question of the extent to which these can be said to be due to cultural or other factors.
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References
"Wanting to be wanted" : a comparative study of incidence and severity in indirect complaint on the part of French and English language teaching assistants', Journal of French Language Studies, January 2010
'"Activity types" and "discourse types" : Mediating "advice" in interactions between foreign language assistants and their supervisors in schools in England and France', Multilingua 27, 2008, pp. 297-324 (with Jonathan Culpeper and Julia Harrison).
'Politics and Pragmatics in the Cross-cultural Management of "'Rapport"', Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 7 : 3, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2007, pp.217-239 (with Julia Harrison).
'Intercultural Studies as a component of HE Modern Languages Courses in the UK', LTSN Good Practice Guide http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/resources/guidecontents.aspx, 2004.
Some significant reference works in the field
Austin J.L. (1962) How to do things with words. Oxford: OUP
Goffman E. (1967) Interaction Ritual: essays on face to face behaviour. New York: Garden City
(1974) Frame Analysis: an essay in human experience. New York: Harper Row
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Levinson, S.C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP
Searle J.R. (1975) Speech Acts: an essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: CUP
Spencer-Oatey, H. (2000) ed. Culturally speaking: managing rapport through talk across cultures. London: Continuum
Thomas, J. (1995) Meaning in Interaction: an introduction to Pragmatics. London: Longman
Van Dijk (2008) Discourse and context. A sociocognitive approach. Cambridge; CUP
Wierzbicka, A. (1991) Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. The Semantics of Human Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Do, 26. Mai 2011, 18 Uhr s.t.
Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz
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78467 Konstanz
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