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  • 3 - Cognitive Psychology in Pragmatics

  • from Part I - Theoretical Foundation
  • Edited by Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics
    Published online:
    29 September 2022
    Print publication:
    20 October 2022, pp 63-82

  • Summary

    Default interpretation is crucial for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) and intercultural pragmatics. Participants of intercultural interactions represent different speech communities and cultures, so defaultness can hardly work the way it does in L1. The cognitive mechanism is the same, but the result is different. As interlocutors in intercultural encounters belong to different speech communities, they share limited core common ground of the target language (English), which is the basis for relatively similar default interpretations in L1. Research in intercultural communication and L2 use (e.g. House 2002; Cieslicka 2007; Kecskes 2010) demonstrated the priority of literal meaning in both production and comprehension. Literal meanings of lexical units serve as core common ground for interlocutors with different L1 backgrounds when they communicate in English. In order for us to understand how default interpretation works in intercultural interactions, first we need to get to know how defaultness occurs in L1. Giora’s study will help us do that.