Interactional Sociolinguistics

Reading

Week 11

Required Reading

Deborah Tannen, 'The Pragmatics of Cross-Cultural Communication' (from Applied Linguistics 5/3: 189-195) (e-group)

Supplementary Readings

Ron and Suzanne Scollon, 'Topic Confusion in English-Asian Discourse' (from World Englishes 10/22, pp. 113-125) (e-group)

Peter Smith and Michale Harris Bond, 'Communicatiing with foreigners' (from Social Psychology Across Cultures, 1998,Prentice-Hall, 237-256) (e-group)

S. Scollon, 'Metaphors of Self and Communuication: English and Cantonese' (egroup)