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

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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.

Karin Aijmer, Gothenberg University, Sweden Maria Jesus Barros Garcia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Juliette Delahaie, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, France Cesar Felix-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