Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón y Lucía Fernández Amaya, eds., Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

 

The volume gathers the following works:

"Thinking for writing" (Winnie Cheng y Peter Grundy)

"On the impoliteness of some politeness strategies: a study and comparison of the use of some pragmatic markers of impoliteness in British English and American English, Peninsular Spanish and Argentine Spanish" (Laura Alba Juez)

"Politeness in Turkish: a cross-cultural comparison" (Leyla Marti)

"The production of apologies by proficient Catalan learners of English" (Hortènsia Curell i Gotor y María Sabaté i Dalmau)

"Interaction through shared knowledge in American, British and Spanish business lectures" (Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez, Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira y Miguel F. Ruiz Garrido)

"Phatic utterances and the communication of social information: a relevance-theoretic approach" (Manuel Padilla Cruz)

"A framework for reading: relevance theory" (Clarice Lamb)

"Sociocultural variation and indirectness in responses to threats" (Holger Limberg y Ronald Geluykens)

"Book advertisement as a genre: the case of blurbs" (Maria Lluïsa Gea Valor)

You can find more information about this book and how to order it in the following link:

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Studies-in-Intercultural--Cognitive-and-Social-Pragmatics.htm

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