Book review: Kecskes, Istvan. 2014. Intercultural Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 278.

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  • Roberto A. Valdeon Universidad de Oviedo

Keywords:

pragmatics, discourse analysis, linguistics

Abstract

Intercultural pragmatics aims to explore areas of pragmatics neglected in the literature until now...

DOI: 10.20420/rlfe.2015.0009

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Author Biography

Roberto A. Valdeon, Universidad de Oviedo

Roberto A. Valdeon has a Master’s degree in English Literature and Translation Studies (University of Glasgow) and a Ph. D. in English Studies (University of Oviedo). He has published extensively on translation, including contributions to journals such as Perspectives, Across Languages and Cultures, Meta, Language and Intercultural Communication, Terminology, Target, Babel, Translation Studies, Philological Quarterly, The Translator, Languages in Contrast, Intercultural Pragmatics, Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Translating and Interpreting Studies. He is a member of the international advisory board of Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics (University of Vigo) and John Benjamins’s Handbook of Translation Studies and Forum. Since July 2011 he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Perspectives Studies in Translatology. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2011-2012 and 2014) and a visiting professor at the University of Leuven (2013). In 2013 Spain’s Ministry of Education accredited him as Full Professor. He is also a Research Associate at the University of the Free State (South Africa) for the period 2015-2017.

References

Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, S. Conrad & E. Finegan. (1999). Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman.

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2015-07-27

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Valdeon, R. A. (2015). Book review: Kecskes, Istvan. 2014. Intercultural Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 278. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 21(1), 184–191. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/245

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2015): Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos

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Reseñas/Book reviews

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