Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

House, Juliane; Kádár, Dániel Z.

doi:10.1017/9781108954587

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“…Tipton and Desilla (2019) chose to name their edited volume The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Pragmatics, placing translation and pragmatics on equal footing by means of the coordinating conjunction 'and'. Other subdisciplines dealing with related topics of pragmatic phenomena across linguistic cultures bear the names of cross-cultural pragmatics (see House & Kádár, 2021), intercultural pragmatics (see Kecskés, 2013) or contrastive pragmatics (see Aijmer, 2011) and have their own developed tradition and canon. They focus on the study of language use across 'linguacultures' (Friedrich, 1989), the communicative processes among people from different cultures speaking different L1s, and the contrastive study of pragmatics in different languages to inform teaching, respectively.…”

Section: Pragmatics In Translationmentioning

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Pragmatics in Translation

Dayter

Locher²,

Messerli³

2023

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This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically innovative avenues of research in the field. We focus on three pragmatics issues – relational work, participation structure, and mediality – that we foreground as promising loci of research on translational data. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on translation/interpreting over time, and then outlining our understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation as a field, we arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent desiderata for future research. These questions identify the paths that can be productively explored through synergies of the linguistic pragmatics framework and translation data. In two case study chapters, we offer two example studies addressing some of the questions we identified as suggestions for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Pragmatics In Translationmentioning

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Pragmatics in Translation

Dayter

Locher²,

Messerli³

2023

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“…Data Analysis To answer the research questions proposed earlier, we analysed and compared the 50 Chinese and Japanese RAIs in the screenshots in terms of both their semiotic components and functions. Considering ideal cross-cultural pragmatic research (including contrastive pragmatics) includes both quantitative and qualitative components (House and Kádár, 2021), we did both in the analysis part by adopting a bottom-up approach (House and Kádár, 2022).…”

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A Morpho-Pragmatic Study of Roman Alphabetic Initialisms (RAI s) on Chinese and Japanese Social Media

Chen

Fukushima

Chen

2023

Contrastive Pragmatics

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The use of Roman alphabetic initialisms (RAIs) is common on both Chinese and Japanese social media. However, to date, few studies have examined the phenomenon at the morpho-pragmatic interface in adequate detail or depth; nor has any researcher addressed their formational and motivational similarities and differences between Chinese and Japanese RAIs. To fill these gaps, this study conducts a comparative analysis of the RAIs collected from Weibo (for Chinese data) and Instagram and Twitter (for Japanese data). The results show that while the RAIs on the Chinese and Japanese social media share some ways of formation and converge on some motivations, differences in both formation and motivations also exist between Chinese and Japanese RAIs. It is argued that the formational differences stem from language characteristics and the functional divergences may be attributed to the different societal-cultural backgrounds of Chinese and Japanese netizens. The study may not only expand the scope of initialism research in general, but also enrich our understanding of the effect of societal-cultural differences on their formation and function of use in Computer- Mediated Communication (CMC) in particular.

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“…For example, politeness expressions differ even among otherwise fairly similar cultures (e.g., the appropriateness of direct requests differs between English/German and Russian/Polish speakers Ogiermann, 2009). These aspects of pragmatics appear quite different in nature and more closely tied to social norms (House & Kádár, 2021), yet whether this distinction is qualitative or simply a matter of degree is an open question (cf., Leech, 1983). In many ways, due to the need to balance ecological validity and experimental control, the tasks used in the current study represent an impoverished form of communication.…”

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Real-time inference in communication across cultures: Evidence from a nonindustrialized society.

Ryskin¹,

Salinas²,

Piantadosi³

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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In everyday communication, speakers and listeners make sophisticated inferences about their conversation partner's intended meaning. They combine their knowledge of the visuospatial context with reasoning about the other person's knowledge state and rely on shared assumptions about how language is used to express communicative intentions. However, these assumptions may differ between languages of nonindustrialized-where conversations often primarily take place within a, so-called, society of intimates-and industrialized cultures-societies of strangers. Here, we study inference in communication in the Tsimane', an indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon, who have little contact with industrialization or formal education. Using a referential communication task, we probe how Tsimane' speakers refer to objects in the world around them when there are potential ambiguities (e.g., referring to a cup when there are multiple cups in view) across different visual contexts. Using an eye-tracking task, we probe the realtime inferences that Tsimane' listeners make about the speaker's intentions. We find that Tsimane' speakers use visual (color, size) contrasts to disambiguate referents (e.g., "Hand me the small cup"), much like English speakers, and they predictively direct their gaze to objects in a contrast set when they hear a modifier (e.g., "small"). Despite myriad cultural and linguistic dissimilarities between the two populations, the qualitative patterns of behavior and eye-gaze of Tsimane' and English speakers were strikingly similar, suggesting that the communicative expectations underlying many everyday inferences may be shared across cultures.

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

Cited by 66 publications

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Pragmatics in Translation

Pragmatics in Translation

A Morpho-Pragmatic Study of Roman Alphabetic Initialisms (RAI s) on Chinese and Japanese Social Media

Real-time inference in communication across cultures: Evidence from a nonindustrialized society.

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