Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction

Edited by: Istvan Kecskes

Volume 26 in the series Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110766752

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In recent years the traditional approach to common ground as a body of information shared between participants of a communicative process has been challenged. Taking into account not only L1 but also intercultural interactions and attempting to bring together the traditional view with the egocentrism-based view of cognitive psychologists, it has been argued that construction of common ground is a dynamic, emergent process. It is the convergence of the mental representation of shared knowledge that we activate, assumed mutual knowledge that we seek, and rapport as well as knowledge that we co-construct in the communicative process.

This dynamic understanding of common ground has been applied in many research projects addressing both L1 and intercultural interactions in recent years. As a result several new elements, aspects and interpretations of common ground have been identified. Some researchers came to view common ground as one component in a complex contextual information structure. Others, analyzing intercultural interactions, pointed out the dynamism of the interplay of core common ground and emergent common ground.

The book brings together researchers from different angles of pragmatics and communication to examine (i) what adjustments to the notion of common ground based on L1 communication should be made in the light of research in intercultural communication; (ii) what the relationship is between context, situation and common ground, and (iii) how relevant knowledge and content get selected for inclusion into core and emergent common ground.

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Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York at Albany, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Istvan Kecskes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Understanding common ground
The interdependence of common ground and context Keith Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Understanding common ground as a cognitive object Brian Nolan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
From laboratory to real life: Obstacles in common ground building Arto Mustajoki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Presupposition failures and the negotiation of the common ground Fabrizio Macagno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
2 Emergent common ground
Grounding emergent common ground: Detecting markers of emergent common ground in a YouTube discussion thread Elke Diedrichsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Co-constructing emergent common ground: The role of the intercultural mediator Adriana Merino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
The co-construction of common ground through exemplars unique to an ESL classroom Eunhee Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
3 Common ground building
Mutual knowledge and the ‘hidden common ground’: An interdisciplinary perspective on mutual understanding in intercultural communication Karsten Senkbeil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
The linguistic code as basis for common ground building in English as a foreign language Olga Obdalova, Ludmila Minakova and Aleksandra Soboleva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
ELF disagreement as an interactional resource for doing interculturality Qing Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
4 Common ground in different discourses
Working offline: Common ground in written discourse Ivana Trbojević Milošević Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Metapragmatic expressions as common ground builders in intercultural business communication Ping Liu, Linlin Yang and Jialiang Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Harmony and common ground: Aikido principles for intercultural training Greet Angèle De Baets and Ellen Van Praet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Contributors to this volume Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and students of Linguistics and Pragmatics, especially Intercultural Pragmatics.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 341
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
- Tables: 12
Keywords: Pragmatics; Common ground; Intercultural interaction; Communicative process

eBook

Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110766752

Hardcover

Published: March 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110766721