East Asian Pragmatics

<p>Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages past and present alike is written and published in local languages. As a result research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the language.</p><p>The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts deixis discourse markers conversation analysis discourse analysis and face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of research work published in the local languages the volume also includes a survey of internationally published English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages. </p><p>A rivetting discourse on pragmatics research it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike.</p>