Pragmatic and Cross-Cultural Competences: Focus on Politeness - Hardcover

by Thomas Szende (Editor), George Alao (Editor)

This volume contains contributions that, based on authentic data from diverse African, Asian and European languages, literatures and cultures, shed a new light on politeness as a central phenomenon in pragmatics, and on what is at stake when teaching or learning the subject.

Author Biography

Thomas Szende is Professor of Hungarian and Applied Linguistics at INALCO (Paris) and Director of the EA 4514 PLIDAM Research Centre. His academic interests focus on Second Language Acquisition as well as Hungarian grammar, bilingual lexicography, and translation. He has published several books including Second Culture Teaching and Learning, Peter Lang, 2014; The Foreign Language Appropriation Conundrum: Micro Realities & Dynamics. P.I.E-Peter Lang, 2016.

George Alao is Associate Professor of Yorùbá, and Language and Culture Pedagogy at INALCO), where he is Deputy-Director of the research team EA 4514 PLIDAM and co-convenes its Axis 1 (Language policies, multilingualism and representations). Keenly interested in all aspects of Language Teaching and Learning including the Pedagogy of African Languages, he has authored or participated in many books including Journey into Yorùbá language and culture, EAC, 2014 and Dispositifs éducatifs en contexte mondalisé et didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle, Peter Lang, 2014.