"A timely contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics. The nine chapters presented here expand the scope of research to date by including different contexts (i.e., formal instruction, stay-abroad, and online) and age groups which have received less attention (for example, young learners and adolescents). Whereas the speech act of requesting is the one that has been most explored in the field of interlanguage pragmatics, as attested by several chapters in the present volume, disagreements and directives are also tackled. This book embraces research addressing both elicited and naturally-occurring data in studies which deal with pragmatic use, development, and awareness"--
Scholars of language and language education explore interlanguage pragmatics as a subfield in the field of second language acquisition. They focus on the pragmatic competence and performance of second-language learners on their way to developing a target language in formal instruction contexts, study abroad contexts, and other contexts. Their topics include exploring case stories in the development of textual discourse-pragmatic markers in formal English language classrooms, the pragmatic competence of content-and-language-integrated-learning students across different educational levels in secondary stage: the case of requests, the role of individual differences on learning pragmatic routines in a study abroad context, and pragmatic translanguaging: multilingual practice in adolescent online discourse. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The present volume embraces a series of studies on pragmatic issues taking into account different contexts and ages thus allowing for wider perspectives on interlanguage pragmatics.
