Researching Sociopragmatic Variability

1. Introduction; Kate Beeching and Helen Woodfield PART I: VARIATIONAL PRAGMATICS 2. Pragmalinguistic and Gender Variation in U.S. Café Service Encounters; Lisa N. Fink and J. César Félix-Brasdefer 3. The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments; Chih-Ying Lin 4. Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals; Wei Ren 5. Revisiting You Know Using the BNC WebQuery System: A Sociopragmatic Analysis; Qun Zheng 6. Compliment Responses Among Malaysian Multilinguals; Jennifer Quah Xiao Min PART II: INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS 7. Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers' and ESL Learners' Requests; Helen Woodfield 8. Variability in Native and Non-native Use of Pragmatic Markers: The Example of Well in Role Play Data; Kate Beeching PART III: CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS 9. Well in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective; Karin Aijmer 10. Combining Self-report and Role-play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: Towards a Methodological Synthesis; María Jesus Barros García and Marina Terkourafi PART IV: SOCIOPRAGMATIC COMPETENCE AND THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM 11. Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: Towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL; Juliette Delahaie 12. The Application of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Research Findings to the Teaching of Pragmatic Competence; Patricia Pullin