US English and Pragmatic Norms
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes: Translanguaging and world Englishes - Zimbabwe English. ed. / Kingsley Bolton. Vol. 6 Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2025. p. 3937-3947.
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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 -