CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- REFERENCES -- List of contributors -- 1: PRAGMATICS IN CROSS-LANGUAGE STUDIES -- The ethnography of English compliments and compliment responses: a contrastive sketch -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COMPLIMENTS AND COMPLIMENT RESPONSES -- 3. DATA: PRELIMINARIES -- 3.1 Analysis -- 3.2 American data -- 3.2.1 Agreements -- 3.2.2 Nonagreements -- 3.2.3 Request Interpretation -- 3.2.4 Frequency and Relationship Analysis -- 3.3 South African Data -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS -- 5. SUMMARY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- On representatives* as a class of illocutionary acts -- 1. SEARLE'S CHARACTERIZATION OF REPRESENTATIVES AND CRITICISMS -- 2. TWO ASPECTS OF TRUTH AND THE CONSEQUENCES STEMMING FROM THAT DISTINCTION -- 3. SCALAR ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVES -- 4. A PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ENGLISH AND POLISH -- 5. IS IT INTERESTING TO COMPARE TYPES OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Towards a typology of contrastive studies -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOME TERMINOLOGICAL ISSUES -- 3. EXTERNAL & INTERNAL PRINCIPLES OF TAXONOMY -- 4. TEXT-BOUND CS -- 5. SYSTEMATIC CS -- 6. IMMEDIATELY RELEVANT TCs VS. ULTIMATELY RELE-VANT TCs -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Praising and complimenting -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING ACTS -- 3. ILLOCUTIONARY STRUCTURE OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING -- 4. LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING (POLISH) -- 4.1 Indirectness -- 5. PRAISING/COMPLIMENTING AND DISCOURSE ORGANIZATION -- 5.1 Discourse consequences -- 5.2 Pre-acts -- 6. ENGLISH DATA COMPARED -- 7. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Interactive ethnolinguistics -- 1. INTRODUCTION.

2. CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS AS APPLIED TO THE ANALYSIS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION -- 3. MAXIMS AND POLITENESS -- 4. CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMPLES: WESTERN APACHE AND (AMERICAN) ENGLISH SPEAKERS -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- The impact of the child's world on pairing form and function in Antiguan Creole and English -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FORM AND FUNCTION -- 2.1 Form - Function Pairing -- 2.2 Form, Function, and the Expression of Modality -- 2.3 The Child's Approach -- 3. THE DATA -- 3.1 Antiguan Creole -- 3.2 Standard American English -- 4. CROSSCULTURAL COMPARISON -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- II: PRAGMATICS IN INTERLANGUAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STUDIES -- Collocational blends of advanced second language learners: a preliminary analysis -- 1. THE PROBLEM -- 2. THE CASE -- 2.1 Topic -- 2.2 Text -- 2.3 Blends -- 2.4 Analysis of text -- 2.4.1 Statement 1 -- 2.4.2 Statement 2 -- 2.4.3 Statement 3 -- 2.4.4 Statement 4 -- 2.4.5 Statement 5 -- 2.4.6 Statement 6 -- 2.4.6 Statement 7 -- 2.4.8 Statement 8 -- 2.4.9 Statement 9 -- 2.4.10 Statement 10 -- 2.4.11 Statement 11 -- 2.4.12 Statement 12 -- 2.5 Discussion -- 3. A TENTATIVE CATEGORIZATION -- 3.1 Intra-clausal blends -- 3.1.1 Prepositional phrases -- 3.1.3 A djective complementation -- 3.1.2 Verb complementation -- 3.1.4 Noun phrases -- 3.2 Supra-clausal blends -- 4. RESUME -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- On describing and analyzing foreign language classroom discourse -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE -- 2.1 Correctness of content and correctness of language -- 2.2 Ambiguous utterances in discourse -- 3. ON THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE -- 4. A MODEL OF ANALYSIS -- 4.1 Acts -- 4.2 Moves -- 4.3 Exchanges -- 4.4 Transactions -- 4.5 Didactic units -- 5. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Interactive procedures in interlanguage discourse -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OPENING AND CLOSING DISCOURSE -- 2.1 Openings in non-educational discourse -- 2.2 Openings in educational discourse -- 2.3 Closing in non-educational discourse -- 2.4 Closings in educational discourse -- 3. DISCOURSE REGULATION -- 3.1 Discourse regulation in non-educational discourse -- 3.2 Discourse regulation in educational discourse -- 4. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Well don't blame me! On the interpretation of pragmatic errors -- 1. BACKGROUND -- 2. CATEGORIES OF PRAGMATIC ERROR -- 2.1 Examples of pragmalinguistic failure: -- 2.2 Examples of sociopragmatic failure: -- 3. A SCHEMATISATION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF PRAGMATIC ERRORS -- 3.1 Communicative strategies -- 3.2 Perception of situation -- 3.2.1 Background knowledge -- 3.2.2 Communicative context -- 3.2.3 The spatio-temporal setting -- 3.3 Errors in (inter)action -- REFERENCES -- Coexisting discourse worlds and the study of pragmatic aspects of learners' interlanguage -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE SITUATIONAL FRAME, DISCOURSE WORLDS, AND LEARNER DATA -- 3. WORLD SWITCHING IN ROLE ENACTMENTS -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Indexof terms and authors -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.