Pragmatic and Cross-Cultural Competences: Focus on Politeness (Hardcover)

Contents: Thomas SZENDE & George ALAO: Introduction ? Anthony J. LIDDICOAT & Troy McCONACHY: Meta-pragmatic awareness and agency in language learners’ constructions of politeness ? Peter STOCKINGER: The topos of polite behavior. Exploring thematic, narrative and discursive structures of a lexical field ? Istvan KECSKES: Impoliteness as a part of pragmatic competence in L2 ? Helene DE PENANROS: When politeness is in the detail: the case of an imperative in Russian ? Junji GONG & Joel BELLASSEN: Teaching fictive kinship terms in Chinese as a Foreign Language ? San San HNIN TUN: Expressing politeness with discourse particles in Myanmar language ? Festus A. SOYOYE: Politeness and terms of address and reference in French and YoruIbai ? Jin-Ok KIM: Expression of politeness in Korean as a Foreign Language: diversity of linguistic means and order of acquisition ? Viet Anh NGUYEN: Modelling a new approach to researching and teaching politeness in Vietnamese as an L2 ? Orsolya MAROTI: Politeness and pragmatic competence in teaching Hungarian as a Second Language: successes and pitfalls ? Marijana PETROVI?: Should impoliteness be taught? ? Shima MOALLEMI: L2 socialization, construction of bilingual pragmatic competence and the Persian politeness system "ta’arof" ? Festus A. SOYOYE, Tajudeen A. OSUNNIRAN & Joy C. NNABUIFE: A contrastive analysis of politeness strategies in West African Francophone and Igbo commercial interactions ? Christelle HOPPE: Critical thinking, cognitive presence and social languages in an LMOOC ? Elise Solange BAGAMBOULA: Politeness or buzitu ("respect") in Kikoongo (Laari)