East Asian pragmatics : commonalities and variations / edited by Xinren Chen and Doreen Dongying Wu.

Introduction / Xinren Chen -- Indigenous pragmatic research on East Asian languages. Indigenous pragmatic research on Chinese / Xiaoping Jing, Wenxiu Yang, Guodong Yu. Xueyu Wang, Zhanghong Xu, Ling Zhou and Yansheng Mao -- Indigenous pragmatic research on Japanese / Tetsuharu Koyama, Jun Sawada, Kaoru Hayano, Sachiko Takagi, Noriko Onodera and Masato Takiura -- Indigenous pragmatic research on Korean / Seongbum Lee, Haeyeon Kim, Seongha Rhee, Kyu-hyun Kim, Kyung-Hee Suh, Myung-Hee, Kim, Eun-Ju Noh and Iksoo Kwon -- International pragmatic research on East Asian languages. International pragmatic research on Chinese / Victor Ho -- International pragmatic research on Japanese / Tetsuharu Koyama, Jun Sawada, Kaoru Hayano, Sachiko Takagi, Noriko Onodera, Osamu Sawada and Michi Shiina -- International pragmatic research on Korean / Soonja Choi and Stephanie Hyeri Kim -- Contrastive pragmatics involving East Asian languages. Contrastive pragmatics within East Asian languages / Xueyu Wang, Yuan Yuan and Xi Chen -- Contrastive pragmatics beyond East Asian languages / Xiaoping Jing, Saeko Fukushima and Xi Chen -- Conclusion / Xinren Chen.

"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 language. The contributors seek to present a comprehensive survey of existing outputs of pragmatics research on three major East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese and Korean). The survey concentrates on a number of core pragmatic topics such as speech acts, deixis, discourse markers, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and face/(im)politeness. To complement and compare with the picture of research work published in the local languages, the volume also includes a survey of internationally published, English-mediated articles and books studying the regional languages or contrasting them with other languages. A rivetting discourse on pragmatics research, it will be a valuable read for students and scholars alike"-- Provided by publisher.