English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781107503373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 269 str.

Albany) Kecskes Istvan (State University of New York

Opis

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The nature of English as a Lingua Franca; 2. Linguistic creativity in ELF; 3. Interactional competence; 4. Sociocultural background knowledge; 5. Speaker's intention; 6. The semantics-pragmatics interface; 7. Implicatures; 8. Modality; 9. Dialogic sequences and odd structures; Epilogue.