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Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics
Editor: Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón and Lucía Fernández Amaya
Date Of Publication: Jun 2007
Isbn13: 9781847182098
Isbn: 1-84718-209-7
Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics offers valuable contributions to research in pragmatics that will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in many sub-disciplines of the field. The volume gathers a wide selection of papers that address traditional and recent issues in pragmatics and adopts a multidisciplinary approach, as most papers are based on various theoretical models and paradigms. An emphasis is placed on the interaction of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs and practices to account for language production and interpretation. From this perspective, the papers offer new and revealing findings that support existing research, novel insights into language production and interpretation and useful directions for future research.

The editors, who are members of the Research Group “Intercultural Pragmatic Studies (English-Spanish): Pragmatic and Discourse Aspects” (P.A.I. HUM 640), have previously co-edited the volume Current Trends in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics and organised two editions of the “International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics” (E.P.I.C.S. I & II).

Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she teaches applied linguistics. She holds a Ph.D. in Anglo-Germanic Philology from the University of Valencia. Her research interests include discourse analysis, pragmatics, and intercultural communication. Her field of specialisation is politeness theory. She has published and lectured extensively on the topic. She is the founder of the EPICS Research Group.

Manuel Padilla Cruz is currently a Lecturer at the Department of English Language (University of Seville). He holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. His research interests and publications deal with cognitive, social, historical, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics.

Reyes Gómez Morón is a Lecturer at the Department of Philology and Translation (Pablo de Olavide University) and currently co-ordinates the EPICS Research Group. She holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interests and publications address issues related to social, cognitive, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, and English and Spanish as L2.

Lucía Fernández Amaya is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Philology and Translation (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville). She holds a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interests and publications focus on socio-pragmatics, pragmatics and translation, and interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics.

"Although the volume is divided into three thematic sections; intercultural, cognitive and socio-pragmatics, most of the papers use a multidisciplinary approach. However, the editors were right when they decided to have three sections because this will give guidance to the readers about the main focus of each article. The papers describe and discuss research that is theoretically sound, contains empirical evidence and is based on data collected by the authors. I would also like to underline the international character of the volume. Among the authors there are scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong, UK, Spain, and Turkey.

I am sure that readers will welcome the fine scholarship the volume will present to them."

Istvan Kecskes, Professor of Linguistics, Director of ESL MA and PhD Programs

“This book will be of great interest and importance to scholars working at the interface between intercultural, cognitive and social aspects of pragmatics. It brings together a distinguished group of contributors using a wide variety of pragmatic frameworks, who provide new and valuable insights into the interaction of social, cognitive and cultural factors in linguistic communication and suggest interesting directions for future research.”

Deirdre Wilson, FBA, Professor of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, University College London

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