Full Description
Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language.
The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates 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 rivetting discourse on pragmatics research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1 Indigenous Pragmatic Research on East Asian Languages 2. Indigenous Pragmatic Research on Chinese 3. Indigenous Pragmatic Research on Japanese 4. Indigenous Pragmatic Research on Korean Part 2 International Pragmatic Research on East Asian Languages 5. International Pragmatic Research on Chinese 6. International Pragmatic Research on Japanese 7. International Pragmatic Research on Korean Part 3 Contrastive Pragmatics Involving East Asian Languages 8. Contrastive Pragmatics within East Asian Languages 9. Contrastive Pragmatics beyond East Asian Languages 10. Conclusion
