RT list: New publication

Dear colleagues,
The research group "Intercultural studies (English-Spanish): pragmatic and discourse issues" is pleased to announce the publication of Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Reyes Gómez Morón y Lucía Fernández Amaya, and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2007). The volume gathers the following works:
"Thinking for writing" (Winnie Cheng y Peter Grundy)
"On the impoliteness of some politeness strategies: a study and comparison of the use of some pragmatic markers of impoliteness in British English and American English, Peninsular Spanish and Argentine Spanish" (Laura Alba Juez)
"Politeness in Turkish: a cross-cultural comparison" (Leyla Marti)
"The production of apologies by proficient Catalan learners of English" (Hortènsia Curell i Gotor y María Sabaté i Dalmau)
"Interaction through shared knowledge in American, British and Spanish business lectures" (Inmaculada Fortanet Gómez, Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira y Miguel F. Ruiz Garrido)
"Phatic utterances and the communication of social information: a relevance-theoretic approach" (Manuel Padilla Cruz)
"A framework for reading: relevance theory" (Clarice Lamb)
"Sociocultural variation and indirectness in responses to threats" (Holger Limberg y Ronald Geluykens)
"Book advertisement as a genre: the case of blurbs" (Maria Lluïsa Gea Valor)
You can find more information about this book and how to order it in the following link:
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Studies-in-Intercultural--Cognitive-and-Social-Pragmatics.htm
Kind regards,
Dr. Manuel Padilla Cruz
Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)
Facultad de Filología - UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
c/ Palos de la Frontera, s/n.
41004 Sevilla (Spain)
mpadillacruz@us.es
Received on Wed Jan 16 10:12:14 2008