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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456274503321

Titolo

The pragmatics of intercultural and international communication [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987 (volume III), and the Ghent symposium on Intercultural Communication / / edited by Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991

ISBN

90-272-8596-9

9786613092779

1-283-09277-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 6:3

Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

BlommaertJan

VerschuerenJef

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. Pragmatics at issue -- v. 2. Levels of linguistic adaptation -- v. 3. The pragmatics of intercultural and international communication.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains a selection of papers from a special session of the International Pragmatics Conference (Antwerp, August 1987) and from the Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Ghent, December 1987).Studying the communicative styles of cultures and social groups, both at the descriptive level and at the level of pragmatic theory construction, should be a target of pragmatics as a discipline. A clear view is needed of the restrictions on adaptability involving potential fields of conflict in intercultural and international communication. As the contributions to this volume demon