In:Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages
Edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 178] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsvii
Where pragmatics and dialectology meet: Introducing variational pragmatics
Part I. English33
The structure of requests in Irish English and English English
Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics
Small talk in England, Ireland, and the USA
Gratitude in British and New Zealand radio programmes: Nothing but gushing?
Part II. Dutch and German179
The distribution of T/V pronouns in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch
The pragmatics of a pluricentric language: A comparison between Austrian German and German German
Requesting in German as a pluricentric language
Part III. Spanish and French267
Different realizations of solidarity politeness: Comparing Venezuelan and Argentinean invitations
Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastal Spanish
Apologizing in French French and Canadian French
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