Routledge Research in Pragmatics
About the Book Series
This series aims to present the latest research from right across the field of pragmatics. It is not confined to any particular area or school of thought and seeks to provide coverage of a broad range of topics, theories and issues from around the world. The series welcomes proposals for monographs, multi-authored or edited volumes as well as shortform focus books on pragmatics research.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to either:
Elysse Preposi: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, the Americas
Clarissa Lim: [email protected] - Editor, Asia Pacific
Pragmatics in Comparison: A Cross-cultural Study between Chinese and Japanese
1st Edition
Edited
By Wei Ren, Saeko Fukushima
March 02, 2027
Offering a comprehensive and nuanced comparison of pragmatics in Chinese and Japanese, this book examines key areas such as speech act realization and politeness strategies. This volume fills the gap in the research on pragmatics in Chinese and Japanese by systematically comparing pragmatic ...
Navigating Language in Parliamentary Practice: Between Courtesy and Conflict in Japan
1st Edition
By Lidia Tanaka
June 22, 2026
Tanaka explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism. By looking at the speech of politicians in the parliament of Japan, Tanaka ...
Sociopragmatics of Japanese: Theoretical Implications
1st Edition
By Yasuko Obana, Michael Haugh
October 08, 2024
Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Studies of Japanese in pragmatics have often challenged the cross-linguistic relevance of dominant theories. However, they have also inadvertently ...
East Asian Pragmatics: Commonalities and Variations
1st Edition
Edited
By Xinren Chen, Doreen Dongying Wu
May 27, 2024
Most of the innovative and exciting work done by East Asian pragmaticians on their languages, past and present alike, is written and published in local languages. As a result, research published in and about a particular East Asian language has been largely unavailable to those who do not speak the...