East Asian Pragmatics: Commonalities and Variations

East Asian pragmaticians do most of their innovative and exciting work in local languages, making research published in and about a particular language largely unavailable to those who do not speak it. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages, focusing on core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness. It also includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages.

Format: Hardback
Length: 268 pages
Publication date: 26 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The majority of the groundbreaking and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, both past and present, is written and published in local languages. As a consequence, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely inaccessible to those who do not speak the language.

The contributors aim to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The survey focuses on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of research work published in the local languages, the volume also includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages.

A captivating discourse on pragmatics research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike.

Weight: 700g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367512859