Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers across different languages and varieties of a language, investigating native and non-native usages and variation across gender, situation and addressee.

Karin Aijmer, Gothenberg University, Sweden María Jesus Barros García, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Juliette Delahaie, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France César Félix-Brasdefer, Indiana University, USA Lisa N. Fink, Indiana University, USA Chih-Ying Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Patricia Pullin, University of Applied Sciences, Vaud, Switzerland Jennifer Quah Xiao Min, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Wei Ren, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Helen Woodfield, University of Bristol, UK Qun Zheng, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China