Description:
This volume seeks to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research in three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness.
Review Quotes:
"This edited volume, by Xinren Chen and Doreen Wu, represents a unique, original and comprehensive contribution to the state-of-the-art in pragmatic research in East Asia, an exciting field that has seen unprecedented growth in recent years. It brings together experts in pragmatics in East Asia, revealing exciting Commonalities and Variations in East Asian pragmatic research agendas, disciplines, methods and findings."---Winnie Cheng, former Professor, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
"The systematicity with which Xinren Chen and Doreen Wu have collected this multi-authored overview of pragmatic research in and on the three major East Asian languages, turns it into an essential resource for anyone eager to learn about or to participate in it. The book may constitute, furthermore, a unique testimony of a meeting ground of western and eastern academic traditions; thus it is not only about pragmatics, it is intercultural pragmatics in practice."---Jef Verschueren, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Secretary General, International Pragmatics Association