Intercultural Pragmatics

Start with context

The mind maps titled Intercultural Pragmatics offer a starting point for studying context. They include concepts such as common ground and salience, alongside declarative and procedural knowledge. Open a map and follow its branches to see how it organizes these ideas. Then compare it with another map of the same title to find a different arrangement of the material.

Some maps also cover externalist and internalist perspectives on context, as well as the interplay of prior context and the actual situation. Use these branches to identify terms you want to look at more closely.

Explore related maps

Intercultural Communication brings together context, common ground and salience. After starting with an Intercultural Pragmatics map, use it to revisit those concepts in another resource. Compare the branches rather than assuming the maps present the material in exactly the same way.

Language Variations covers style, context and register, with text-message abbreviations as an example. Contrastive Pragmatics includes text, co-text and context. These maps give you more terms to compare with the context branches in your starting map.

Use the maps for practice

As you study, make a list of concepts from a map and explain each one in your own words. Return to the branches to check what the resource covers, then compare your explanations across maps. Teachers can also use the listed maps to find material on specific concepts.

This topic is a section of the Pragmatics unit in Linguistics and philology. Use the maps here to focus on intercultural pragmatics within that unit. A free account lets you make your own quizzes and mind maps and save quiz scores. Choose a map and use its concepts to plan a quiz of your own.