TY - CHAP

T1 - US English and Pragmatic Norms

AU - Barron, Anne

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - US English, that is, the variety of English spoken in the United States, synonymous here with “American English”, has been well described on a phonological, orthographical, lexical and grammatical level. Pragmatic descriptions are less extensive. Drawing from speech act scholarship in cross-cultural and variational pragmatics, this entry explores the pragmatic profile of American English. In doing so, it highlights a number of key foci of appropriate language use in present-day American English, namely democratic language use, clarity of expression, social warmth and achievement recognition.

AB - US English, that is, the variety of English spoken in the United States, synonymous here with “American English”, has been well described on a phonological, orthographical, lexical and grammatical level. Pragmatic descriptions are less extensive. Drawing from speech act scholarship in cross-cultural and variational pragmatics, this entry explores the pragmatic profile of American English. In doing so, it highlights a number of key foci of appropriate language use in present-day American English, namely democratic language use, clarity of expression, social warmth and achievement recognition.

KW - Language Studies

UR - https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Wiley-Blackwell-Encyclopedia-of-World-Englishe-S-by-K-Bolton/9781119518310

U2 - 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00154

DO - 10.1002/9781119518297.eowe00154

M3 - Articles for encyclopedia

SN - 978-1-119-51831-0

VL - 6

SP - 3937

EP - 3947

BT - The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes

A2 - Bolton, Kingsley

PB - Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

CY - Hoboken

ER -