Intercultural pragmatics

pp. 140-148

in: Frank Liedtke, Astrid Tuchen (eds), Handbuch Pragmatik, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2018

Abstract

Intercultural Pragmatics is concerned with the way the language system is put to use in social encounters between human beings who have different first languages, communicate in a common language, and, usually, represent different cultures (cf. Kecskes 2013). The communicative process in these encounters is synergistic in the sense that in them existing pragmatic norms and emerging, co-constructed features are present to a varying degree. Intercultural Pragmatics represents a socio-cognitive perspective in which individual prior experience and actual social situational experience are equally important in meaning construction and comprehension.