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Chapter1
areirreversible.Thedynamicity,fuzziness,metastabilityandunpredictability
ofcontextandtheselfescapesimplecategorizations.
Giventhatitishardtodefnewhatcontextis,itisevenhardertoprovide
languagelearnerswithminimallyclearrulesofhowtocommunicateappro-
priately.Therefore,classroomteachingshouldconcentrateonsensitizing
learnerstotherichnessandparticularityofvariableswhichshapecontext
andselfincommunication,anddevelopingflexibility,mindfulness,andre-
sponsiveness,e.g.,whatproponentsofecolinguisticsadvocate(cf.vanLier
1996,Lankiewicz2015).Ifteachersfollowtheseguidelines,theywillavoid
themainmistakesininterculturalcommunicationwhichWierzbicka(2010:
46)identifes:thatofstereotypinganduniversalizingoftenaccompaniedby
ethnocentrism.Whilemostresearchersdealingwithinterculturalcommu-
nicationrealizethedangerofculturalstereotyping,manyothersdonottake
aproperaccountoforprecautionarymeasuresagainstHtherealityofthe
differencesintacitculturalnorms”andindividualdifferencesincommuni-
cation”(ibid.).
Lastbutnotleast,inacross-culturalpragmaticdescriptionwemayre-
fertothreelayersofcontextualdescription,whichexplainhownon-native
languageusersrepresenttheworldaroundthemandsituatelanguageuse
intheirminds.Apartfromlinguisticdescription(themicrolevel),thereare
threelevelsofmacrodescription:(1)pragmatic-Hfocusingoninterpersonal
meanings,suchasthespeaker’sintentionbehind,andthehearer’suptakeof,
aparticularutterance”,suchasdirectness,vagueness,ortypeofspeechact;
(2)social-situational-Hfocusingonsituatedmeaningssuchastheroles,rela-
tionsandidentitiesperformedbyparticipantsintheparticularspeechevent”
andgenres;(3)cultural-Hfocusingontheideologiesofspeechcommunities,
thatis,thebeliefsystemsofparticularsocialgroups”,suchasnationalities,
genders,andages(Culpeper2010:73-74;Cap2016).Allofthemarevisiblein
theanalysisofrequestspresentedinChapterSeven.
1.4.Formulaiclanguage
Asmentionedearlier,indifferentculturesandcommunitiesofpractice
therearenotonlydifferentregularlyoccurringsituationsbutalsocharacter-
isticanddistinctlinguisticbehaviorpatternsboundupwiththem,calledpre-
codedsentencechunks.Althoughgonearethetimeswhenscholarsbelieved
thatsurfacelinguisticformsaredirectlydeterminedbyHthestructureofso-
cialsituations[ł]basedonanethnocentricillusion”(Gibbs1985:98,after
Wierzbicka2003:25),itisnowadayscommonlyacceptedthatHsuchchunks
areactivatedorretrievedinsomesociallyimportantorfrequentlytaking