Researching Sociopragmatic Variability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Kate Beeching, Helen Woodfield

      Pages 1-16

3. Variational Pragmatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Pragmalinguistic Variation and Barista Perceptions in US Café Service Encounters∗

      • Lisa N. Fink, J. César Félix-Brasdefer

      Pages 19-48

   3. The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments

      • Chih-Ying Lin

      Pages 49-71

   4. Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals

      • Wei Ren

      Pages 72-93

   5. Revisiting You Know Using the BNCweb Query System: a Sociopragmatic Analysis

      • Qun Zheng

      Pages 94-118

   6. Compliment Responses among Malaysian Multilinguals

      • Jennifer Quah Xiao Min

      Pages 119-148

4. Interlanguage Pragmatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers’ and ESL Learners’ Requests

      • Helen Woodfield

      Pages 151-173

   3. Variability in Native and Non-Native Use of Pragmatic Markers: the Example of Well in Role-Play Data

      • Kate Beeching

      Pages 174-197

5. Contrastive Pragmatics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Well in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective

      • Karin Aijmer

      Pages 201-229

   3. Combining Self-Report and Role-Play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: towards a Methodological Synthesis

      • María J. Barros García, Marina Terkourafi

      Pages 230-250

6. Sociopragmatic Competence and the Language Classroom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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   2. Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL

      • Juliette Delahaie

      Pages 253-275

   3. The Application of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Research Findings to the Teaching of Pragmatic Competence

      • Patricia Pullin

      Pages 276-296

7. Back Matter

   Pages 297-305

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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.

• Chinese
• discourse
• English
• gender
• Jesus
• language
• language classroom
• language teaching
• multilingualism
• native speaker
• play
• pragmatics

• University of the West of England, UK

  Kate Beeching

• University of Bristol, UK

  Helen Woodfield

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

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