The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics 2018
DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0289.pub2
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Cross‐Cultural Pragmatics

Abstract: Cross‐cultural pragmatics denotes a field of study that concerns itself with how language acquires meaning through context and through its sociocultural embedding. Because meaning is not inherent in the utterances we produce, messages have to be interpreted drawing on contextual information, the dynamics between the speaker and his/her interactional partner(s), and the common knowledge that we share with our interlocutors. What is pertinent to the study of cross‐cultural pragmatics is, therefore, the notion of… Show more

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“…Thus, although he may have tried to avoid the musical tracks because music was generally considered taboo in Saudi Arabia, his avoidance seems more related to his own defensive intercultural sensitivity frame than to sensitivity towards his students. This is corroborated in an incident (see above) where he admitted that a number of students expressed interest and insisted on the musical tracks being played, while the rest of the students were passive and not offended by it; an event which endorses Guest's (2002) and Stadler's (2018) beliefs that people do not always 'support, defend, and fully manifest the mandates of their own cultures' (p. 159 & p. 2 respectively).…”
Section: Avoiding Contact With Inner Circle Culturementioning
confidence: 87%
“…Thus, although he may have tried to avoid the musical tracks because music was generally considered taboo in Saudi Arabia, his avoidance seems more related to his own defensive intercultural sensitivity frame than to sensitivity towards his students. This is corroborated in an incident (see above) where he admitted that a number of students expressed interest and insisted on the musical tracks being played, while the rest of the students were passive and not offended by it; an event which endorses Guest's (2002) and Stadler's (2018) beliefs that people do not always 'support, defend, and fully manifest the mandates of their own cultures' (p. 159 & p. 2 respectively).…”
Section: Avoiding Contact With Inner Circle Culturementioning
confidence: 87%
“…One a Main author b Corresponding author reason for this is because language needs to be experienced by learners within its context (Stadler, 2018;Jiao et al, 2020) so that it is used competently (Kecskes et al, 2018). As language always has a cultural dimension to it (Stadler, 2018), the teaching of second language needs to pay extra attention to language form and expression within a specific cultural context (Ali et al, 2015). Traditionally, exposure to language use in context for second language learners was limited.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%