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Optimality theory and pragmatics
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ISBN: 1403901295 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Interaction and cognition in linguistics
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ISBN: 3631506422 Year: 2003 Volume: 50 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; Bruxelles ; New York Peter Lang

Interpretation and understanding
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ISBN: 1588114147 9027226040 9786612160714 1282160710 9027295891 9781588114143 9789027226044 9789027295897 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub.,

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics : The Semantics of Human Interaction
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ISBN: 3110177692 3110125382 3110220962 128342911X 9786613429117 9783110177695 0899256996 3110137879 9783110220964 9780899256993 9783110137873 9783110125382 Year: 2003 Volume: 53 Publisher: Berlin New York : Berlin, New York : Mouton de Gruyter, Mouton de Gruyter,

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This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.

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