INTERCULTURAL PRAGMATICS

INTERCULTURAL PRAGMATICS

1. CONTEXT

   • Context as Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
     • Contextualism
     • Literalism
   • Externalist and Internalist Perspective on Context
     • Internal: Lexical units as creators
     • External: Context modifies words meaning
   • The Dynamic Model or Meaning (DMM) and Context
     • Language is never context-free
   • Context in Intercultural Communication
     • Context-sensitivity
   • Interplay of Prior and Internalist Perspective on Context
     • Declarative Knowledge
     • Procedural Context

2. COMMON GROUND

   • What is Common Ground?
     • Emergent
     • Core
   • Current Approaches to Common Ground
     • Pragmatic View
     • Cognitive View
   • Common Ground in the Socio-Cognitive Approach
     • Core: Common Knowledge
     • Emergent: the current sense of that conversation
   • Common Ground in Intercultural Interactions
     • Success and Failure
     • 'Not sure' apprach

3. SALIENCE

   • Salience in the GSH and SCA
     • Salience. Inherent and motivated
   • Utterance Generation in SCA
     • Functional and Cognitive View of utterance production
   • Salience in Language Processing
     • Concepts have no direct, one-to-one connection with lexical items
   • Salience in Culture Specific
     • Inherent
     • Collective
     • Emergent
   • Salience is Culture Specific
     • Stored information is more influential in processing than unstored information