English As a Lingua Franca - The Pragmatic Perspective

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca; 2. Linguistic creativity in ELF; 3. Interactional competence; 4. Sociocultural background knowledge; 5. Speaker's intention; 6. The semantics-pragmatics interface; 7. Implicatures; 8. Modality; 9. Dialogic sequences and odd structures; Epilogue.

About the author

Istvan Kecskes is Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and the CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research) Association. He is author of Foreign Language and Mother Tongue (2000, with Tunde Papp), Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2 (2003) and Intercultural Pragmatics (2013). He is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics

Summary

Explores the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), through the lens of Gricean pragmatics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across the fields of pragmatics, language contact, world Englishes, second language acquisition, and English as a second language.

Product details

• Authors: Istvan Kecskes, Istvan (State University of New York Kecskes, Kecskes Istvan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107103801
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10380-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Language acquisition, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc