Abstract
The chapter reviews current pragmatic theories from an intercultural perspective. It explains the difference between linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and socio-cultural interactional pragmatics. Current research is considered a somewhat idealistic approach putting emphasis on cooperation, rapport, common ground, and politeness. The emphasis on the decisive role of context, socio-cultural factors and cooperation is overwhelming, while the role of the individual's prior experience, existing knowledge, egocentrism, salience and linguistic aggression is almost completely ignored. The chapter reviews some problematic issues of current pragmatics research including intention, speaker meaning and context-sensitivity
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