The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Description

Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study. Bringing together an international team of leading editors and contributors, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of the key concepts, topics, settings and methodologies involved in sociopragmatic research. The chapters are organised in a systematic fashion, and span a wide range of theoretical research on how language communicates multiple meanings in context, how it influences our daily interactions and relationships with others, and how it helps construct our social worlds. Providing insight into a fascinating array of phenomena and novel research directions, the Handbook is not only relevant to experts of pragmatics but to any reader with an interest in language and its use in different contexts, including researchers in sociology, anthropology and communication, and students of applied linguistics and related areas, as well as professional practitioners in communication research.

Michael Haugh's research interests centre on the role of language in social interaction. He has published widely in pragmatics on topics such as (im)politeness, face, conversational humour and metapragmatics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and co-editor of the new Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics series, as well a former co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2015-2020). Daniel Z. Kadar has a research background in cross-cultural, intercultural and historical pragmatics, as well as linguistic politeness and impoliteness, interactional rituals and Chinese pragmatics. He is Research Chair in both China and Hungary. He is Co-Editor of Contrastive Pragmatics. Marina Terkourafi is interested in the interface of language with society and has published widely in all areas of pragmatics, including post-Gricean, sociocultural, historical and experimental pragmatics. She is currently professor and chair of sociolinguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics.