This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

This research describes the pragmatic meaning of verbal and nonverbal language Sundanese people in Sindangkasih District, Ciamis Regency, West Java. is a qualitative using ethnopragmatics. That is, politeness can be done through speech acts that use kinesthetic (facial, gestural, postural). The data source this routine activities carried out by Subdistrict. study are languages contain politenes...

The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articulating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, precise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage consisting of simple words and grammatical...

An ethnographic approach to language aims at explaining the organization of a verbal culture, understood as the result of speakers’ practices and agency. The instrument of this research is fieldwork. For the verbal cultures of bygone societies, only examination of written records helps us to guess how speaking worked at the time. This general issue is addressed by scrutinizing a medieval Catala...