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(2007) shows that participants do not always treat cultural expertise as bound
to cultural membership. In talk between Korean speakers of Japanese attending
a Japanese university and their Japanese college friends and colleagues at
work, the Japanese participants often make claims to expertise in Korean culture.
Whether or not speakers treat epistemic authority on cultural and language
matters as bound up with membership in a cultural category is evident
in their local interactional conduct and may well engender moral judgment
from their co-participants but not from the professional ethnomethodologist.
Suggestions for further reading
Alcón Soler, E.S. and Martínez Flor, A. (eds) (2008) Investigating Pragmatics in
Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
The book examines how the pragmatics of several foreign languages (English,
Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish) is learned, taught and tested in study abroad contexts,
language and content classrooms, computer-mediated communication, and
translation. Studies are conducted from a range of theoretical perspectives, including
sociocultural theory, language socialization, CA and cognitive processing theories.
They offer examples of many of the data types commonly used in interlanguage
pragmatics, such as authentic interaction, role-play, oral and written discourse
completion and verbal report.
Bührig, K. and Thije, J.D. ten (eds) (2006) Beyond Misunderstanding. Linguistic
Analyses of Intercultural Communication. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
The volume takes issue with the commonsense beliefs that intercultural communication
is particularly prone to misunderstanding, and that interaction is ‘intercultural’
by virtue of participants’ diverse cultural backgrounds. The chapters examine
interaction in genetic counseling sessions, international team cooperation, telemarketing,
workplace settings, and gatekeeping encounters from the theoretical perspectives
of functional grammar, systemic functional linguistics, functional
pragmatics, CA, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis.
Di Luzio, A., Günthner, S. and Orletti, F. (eds) (2001) Culture in Communication.
Analyses of Intercultural Situations. Amsterdam: Benjamin.
The book takes an interactional sociolinguistic approach to the study of language
and culture. Its main theme is the theoretical nexus among genres, contextualization
and ideology in intercultural discourse. The empirical studies analyze interactions
among members of cultural subgroups, with particular attention to prosodic,
nonverbal, and rhetorical resources, and to institutional asymmetries, identity construction
and participation among fi rst and second language speakers.
Higgins, C. (ed.) (2007) Special issue: A closer look at cultural difference:
‘Interculturality’ in talk-in-interaction. Pragmatics 17 (1).
Adopting the perspectives of interactional sociolinguistics and MCA, the research
reports in this special issue examine membership in ethnic and national categories
as participants’ situated, practical achievement. Analyses of diverse interactions
bring to the fore how participants’ occasioned orientations to cultural diversity are
refl exively related to the activity and their situated identities, the interactional
resources through which such local relevancies are constructed, and what actions
are accomplished through them. The collection concludes with a comparative
commentary by Junko Mori.
Nguyen, H.T. and Kasper, G. (eds) (2009) Talk-in-Interaction: Multilingual Perspectives.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, National Foreign Language Resource Center.