Description
Provides a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be contrastively examined across linguacultures.
About the Author
Juliane House is Professor Emerita at University of Hamburg, Germany, Distinguished Professor at Hellenic American University Nashua, USA, and Visiting Professor at Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, Dalian University and Beijing University of Science and Technology. She received Honorary Doctorates from Jyvaskyla, Finland and Jaume I, Castello, Spain. Her research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness research, translation theory and the study of English as a lingua franca. Daniel Z. Kadar is Chair Professor and Head of Research Centre in Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China and Research Professor at the Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics (NYTI). His research interests include cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics, interactional ritual theory, politeness and impoliteness research, historical language use and Classical and Modern Chinese linguistics.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108949545
Author Juliane House
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 450g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 16mm