Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning

— —

Juliane House (Professor Emerita) Daniel Z. Kádár (Director, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning

Juliane House (Professor Emerita), Daniel Z. Kádár (Director, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)

$44.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Edinburgh University Press
31 December 2025

Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Language teaching theory & methods; Communication studies

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Pragmatics

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning provides a new ground-breaking approach to the study of second language learning through the lens of cross-cultural pragmatics. Cross-cultural pragmatics involves the use of contrastive linguistic research, supported by a variety of methodologies such as surveys, interviews and discourse completion tests. A key strength of the speech act-centred interactional framework proposed is that it allows the reader to understand difficulties faced by foreign language learners through pragmatic evidence. An important advantage of this approach is that it consistently avoids ideological pre-assumptions and related overgeneralisations. The book presents the framework in a highly accessible and reader-friendly way and illustrates how to put this framework to use with a number of case studies. The authors are internationally leading experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics whose work is a must-read for both academics and students focusing on applied linguistics and second language learnings.

By: Juliane House (Professor Emerita), Daniel Z. Kádár (Director, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399523233
ISBN 10: 1399523236
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Pragmatics
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hamburg University Dániel Z. Kádár is Qihang Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Pragmatic Research at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China. He is also Research Professor at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Maribor. He is an ordinary member of Academia Europaea (MAE.), and he also has a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) in pragmatics (2015) and Ph.D. in linguistics (2006). His areas of research involve cross-cultural, intercultural and L2 pragmatics; linguistic (im)politeness and interactional ritual; language and politics; and historical and modern Chinese language. He has published many books with internationally leading publishers, and research papers in high-impact journals. He is author of Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups (2013), Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual – Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (2017), and co-author of Understanding Politeness (with Michael Haugh, 2013) and Intercultural Politeness – Managing Relationships across Cultures (with Helen Spencer-Oatey, 2020). His most recent book is Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (with Juliane House, 2021). He is co-editor of Cross-cultural pragmatics – A Cross-Disciplinary Journal.

Reviews for Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning

House and Kádár have done an incredible job in presenting this refreshing text linking cross-cultural pragmatics and foreign language learning. Rich in ideas and examples, it will appeal to students and instructors on a range of language, linguistics and education courses. -- Li Wei, Director and Dean, UCL Institute of Education House and Kádár go beyond the traditional notions of speech acts, cross-cultural communication, and L2 pragmatics, presenting the original interactional typology of speech acts from a cross-cultural pragmatics perspective. Case studies contrasting British and Chinese speech samples illustrate diverse research methods, including corpora analysis, data-eliciting experiments, and interview data. An essential, up-to-date resource for students, teachers, and researchers studying contrastive pragmatics. -- Naoko Taguchi, Northern Arizona University