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Intercultural Pragmatics

ISSN: 1613-365X

Editor-in-Chief: Istvan Kecskes

Über diese Zeitschrift

Objective
Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language.

Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms.

The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries.

What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language.

Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics. As a result of this endeavor "Thematic Issue: Pragmatics and Philosophy" (TIPP) has been created. This new issue (from 2018) collects the very best submissions on the topic each year under the editorship of Professor Alessandro Capone (University of Messina, Italy) who will work together with Istvan Kecskes, the Editor-in-Chief to ensure that TIPP publishes innovative and intriguing scholarship in the field.

Topics

pragmatics
intercultural communication
language acquisition and use
multilingualism
semantics

Article formats
Original research articles, Research Statements, Interviews, Rebuttals, Debates, Book reviews

Participate in the next Journal Conference!
10th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication
May 29-31, 2024
University of Pisa, Italy

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Intercultural perspective on research within pragmatics and beyond disciplinary boundaries
Theoretical and applied approach to pragmatics
New tools and methods for investigating human language and communication
Scholarly-led forum for researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics
Innovative thematic issue focussing on Pragmatics and Philosophy from 2018

Geschichte

Intercultural Pragmatics was founded in 2004 by Istvan Kecskes together with the publisher De Gruyter Mouton.

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Band 20 Heft 5

November 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 8. November 2023

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Research Articles

7. November 2023

“Irony is easy to understand ”: The role of emoji in irony detection

Giulia Bettelli, Francesca Panzeri

Seiten: 467-493

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Abstract

In face-to-face conversations, interlocutors might recognize the ironic intent of a speaker relying on the incongruity of the comment relative to a situation, and on irony markers such as the ironic tone of voice and specific facial expressions. In instant messaging, acoustical and visual cues are typically absent, and the context is not always shared. We investigated the role of emoji as cues to detect irony, hypothesizing that they might play the role of the conversational context. We administered to 156 Italian adults a questionnaire, presenting them with WhatsApp messages followed by an emoji, which was congruent or incongruent with the (non-)evaluative positive or negative comment, and found that evaluative incongruent items were rated as more ironic, and that incongruent positive messages were more easily recognized as ironic (criticisms) compared to incongruent negative messages (ironic compliments), in line with the asymmetry of affect hypothesis.

7. November 2023

Exploiting language affordances in Chinese-mediated intercultural communication

Xi Chen, Weihua Zhu

Seiten: 495-519

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Abstract

In this study, we explore how language affordances are exploited in intercultural communication using the socio-cognitive approach. Based on previous discussions of language affordances, we divide the exploiting practices into three categories, namely, enabling a language affordance, constraining a language affordance, and presenting multiple language affordances. Data were collected from 16 roundtable discussions that took place over four seasons of a Chinese TV program. Each roundtable discussion involved four L1 Chinese speakers and eleven L2 Chinese speakers. The L2 speakers are multilingual, frequently speaking more than one language, including English. A quantitative analysis of the data reveals a collective pattern in the participants’ exploitation of language affordances, that is, they tend to activate more core common-ground knowledge than the knowledge of emergent common ground. In addition, they are inclined to construct multicultural common ground, which they actively align themselves with. Their awareness of communicative goals and self-identification as competent multilingual speakers also influence their choice of language affordances.

Open Access 7. November 2023

From lack of understanding to heightened engagement: A multimodal study of Hebrew ′ATA LO MEVIN ‘You don’t understand’

Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki, Yael Maschler

Seiten: 521-555

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Abstract

This study explores the Hebrew ′ATA LO MEVIN (‘you don’t understand’) construction in a corpus of casual conversation. Employing the methodology of Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Conversation Analysis, we show that deployment of this construction is fixed and formulaic and only rarely denotes the recipient’s lack of understanding. Based on a mostly synchronic analysis, we suggest a grammaticization path followed by this construction from a negative epistemic subject-predicate construction denoting literal lack of understanding to a discourse marker signaling the opening of a new narrative, while seeking recipient alignment with the speaker’s intensified affective stance. The path described reveals that embodied conduct, as well as prosodic, morphophonological, and syntactic features of the construction correlate with the weakening of its literal meaning. This sheds light on the uses speakers make of the construction, on how heightened engagement may be achieved in discourse, and on the dialogic nature of interaction and grammar.

Forum

7. November 2023

Interpersonal strategies in international business emails: The intercultural pragmatics perspective

Ping Liu, Huiying Liu

Seiten: 557-579

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Abstract

Business email has a significant impact on commercial activities and organizational image. Intercultural pragmatics is the new development of pragmatics, moving its focus from mono-cultural communication to multi-cultural communication, aiming to describe how communicators seek, activate, and create common ground to complete tasks in intercultural communication contexts. Drawing on 1,477 separate English emails exchanged between a Chinese auto parts export company and its business partners in different parts of the world, we find, from the intercultural pragmatics perspective, that different types of interpersonal strategies, i.e., alliance building, other-caring, and self-enhancing/defending, are employed to construct virtual intimacy and to create and highlight interpersonal relationship dimensions in international business communication. These strategies are intended to facilitate the accomplishment of communication tasks by creating emergent common ground, reflecting the dynamics and interculturality of business communication. This research deepens our understanding of the mechanism of relationship management in international business communication.

Book Reviews

7. November 2023

Naoko Taguchi: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics

Shaopeng Li

Seiten: 581-588

7. November 2023

Kate Scott: Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style: Reference and Beyond

Yaping Yang

Seiten: 589-594

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Please submit your paper together with a short bio and personal information in a separate file as an email attachment to Professor Dr. Istvan Kecskes: icup@albany.edu (queries and submissions). Book reviews with a short bio should be submitted to the review editor, Professor Dr. Jesus Romero-Trillo: jesus.romero@uam.es (book review submissions)

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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Istvan Kecskes
School of Education, ED 114
State University of New York at Albany
Albany, NY 12222
USA
e-mail: icup@albany.edu (queries and submissions)

Review Editor
Dr. Jesus Romero-Trillo
Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
28049-Madrid
Spain
e-mail: jesus.romero@uam.es (book review submissions)

Editorial Assistant
Dr. Melody Nadeau
Siena College
Loudonville, NY
melody.nadeau@gmail.com

Editorial Board
Patricia Amaral (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Bruno Bara (University of Torino, Italy)
Anne Barron (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany)
John W. Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Alessandro Capone (University of Messina, Italy)
Wayne Davis (Georgetown University, USA)
Victoria Escandell Vidal (Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona, Italy)
Fanny Forsberg Lundell (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Dirk Geeraerts (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Raymond Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Rachel Giora (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
Michael Haugh (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Laurence Horn (Yale University, USA)
Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge, UK)
Julija Korostenskiene (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Kepa Korta (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
Fabrizio Macagno (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jacob Mey (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Jacques Moeschler (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Kerry Mullan (RMIT, Melbourne, Australia)
Alejandro Parini (Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Liu Ping (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China)
Wilfrid Rotgé (Sorbonne IV, Paris, France)
Yael Sharvit (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge, UK)
Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France)
Andra Vasilescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Xu Wen (Southwest University, Chongqing, China)
Deirdre Wilson (University of London, UK)

(English)

Online ISSN: 1613-365X
Print ISSN: 1612-295X
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. März 2004
Erscheinungsweise: 5 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: Researchers and graduate students in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication Studies, and Pragmatics.