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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 12.2 (2016): 133134 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2016-0008 The present issue of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics comprises three research articles and one book review. While addressing various aspects of language, society, and culture interface, the authors draw on several theoretical perspectives and methodological frameworks, including speech act theory, genre theory, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics as well as an array of approaches within Critical Discourse Studies. In the first article, Zohreh R. Eslami et al. take under scrutiny the genre of wedding invitations and its cultural determinants. Analysing a corpus collected between 20022013 in the United States, the authors identify and describe recurrent structural patterns and their communicative functions. The comparison of the American data with the results of previous studies on wedding practices in Jordan, Brunei and Iran provides valuable insights into the role of religion (e.g. Islamic traditions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia), gender roles and other sociocultural factors in shaping the wedding culture and discourses related to it. Importantly, as Eslami et al. demonstrate, the cultural dimensions listed by Hofstede, e.g. individualism vs. collectivism, femininity vs. masculinity, high vs. low power distance, impact not only on the form, content and functions of wedding
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics – de Gruyter
Published: Dec 1, 2016
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